Not great. As others have said, it is slow. Also, it feels like they just did a wikipedia search for "linguistics" and then wrote a script around the first paragraph. I don't see this as a cerebral sci fi film at all.
More of a cheesy, slog-fest.
This review of Arrival (2016) was written by Ryeca on 13 November 2016.
Arrival has generally received very positive reviews.
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