Arrival2016

This is a challenging movie to review. I feel like I watched something really impactful. It's gorgeously shot with an incredibly haunting and memorable score. The atmosphere is incredible. I totally felt like I witnessed aliens coming down on earth and the mystery and fear that is present. The movie's biggest positives are how immersive and sophisticated the movie is. There are a lot of really deep themes and ideas that are relatively subtle and very interesting. If the movie overexplained everything it would lose its impact but because everything was so hidden it made it more compelling to me. I will say though that I couldn't personally connect to this movie. It's tough for to me explain this but I would definitely not consider this a movie I am drawn to watch again. I thought the pacing was a little sluggish and I couldn't really connect to the characters in the way I wanted to. Still a great and incredibly memorable movie.