Arrival (II) (2016)
5/10
This movie is a disappointment to me
25 October 2020
Warning: Spoilers
The beginning of the movie is just outstanding, it hooks you in spite of the slow pace. It has some very interesting ideas and concepts but it fails mostly because of one thing in my opinion and that's time travel. Any movie that uses time travel as an essential plot point has to be very particular with the rules to make me engage with that aspect. I did not engage with this movie's version at all. In fact, all the intrigue and drama it had built up just fell flat as soon as the concept of going back and forth in time was introduced and I lost all engagement with the movie.

May be different for you as it seems is for the rest of the reviewers that are giving it a 10/10 but it's just not for me. A shame since I was really looking forward to how things were going to go. In any case, it is probably worth watching but it is a very slow and weird movie.

I hope more movies like this are made favorably without an element of time-travel (Interstellar is another one that lost me because of that).
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