Review of Arrival (2016) by Mixedmessage — 29 Jan 2017

Look, if you want the Hollywood version with explosions and shooting watch Edge of Tomorrow, which is actually a good movie also. Arrival is an intelligent and beautiful movie, simultaneously a story about the meaning of communication and a meditation on the value of life and choice.

Like all great film you're not the same after seeing it as before. More prosaic and lacking the epic sweep of 2001 (the greatest film ever), reminiscent but more accessible. I've now seen Sicarios and Arrival and I'm sold on Villeneuve - I'm interested in anything he makes now.

I have to laugh that the one negative review is from Trump's son-in-law's paper.