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Arrival is Directed by Denis Villeneuve, (Prisoners, Enemy and Sciario) and stars Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker, Michael Stuhlbarg and Tzi Ma. The movie is about Linguistics professor Louise Banks (Amy Adams) leads an elite team of investigators when gigantic spaceships touchdown in 12 locations around the world. As nations teeter on the verge of global war, Banks and her crew must race against time to find a way to communicate with the extraterrestrial visitors. Hoping to unravel the mystery, she takes a chance that could threaten her life and quite possibly all of mankind.

Arrival is the fourth film by Denis Villeneuve and is on par with his other three films. He hasn’t made a bad movie yet and this is a nice change for him and when I mean change I mean genre, because his last films are really dark and psychological while this film is more of mystery drama. One of the things I love about the movie is that it takes it’s time telling the story and slowly unraveling the mystery piece by piece, this was great because it was making us think and treated like adults. We had to be patient and wait for the movie to reveal itself to us. Now I understand that most people are not going to love the slow pace of the movie but for me I loved it, it’s something I was hoping for in this movie. What I was also hoping for was great acting and I kinda of got it. What I mean is that the acting is really good but not oscar level good, know one disappeared in a role, but like I said the performances were really good. For example, Amy Adams does a good job as the lead in this film. She kept the story going and you actually felt for her character you wanted her to succeed. Then we have Forest Whitaker as army colonial GT Weber, he does a really good job in this film. He had a weird accent but it ended working for me in the end. Then we also have Jeremy Renner who plays Ian Donnelly and he does a fine job.

Also the cinematography like all his films is always beautiful, it’s not Roger Deakins who has done all of his other films. Instead it’s Bradford Young and he does a great job, all of the scenes, the whole movie looks beautiful. Another that I liked about the movie is the design of the aliens and I mean all of their designs. The they look, the way their ship looks and the way their language looks. I thought it was really neat and something different, I think this literally the first different unique design of aliens that I have seen in a movie in a long time. Now going back to when I was talking about slower pacing. The way the movie shows the characters speaking to the aliens is really clever, like how their trying to decipher their language and trying teach them are language. Little things like this that I’m glad the filmmakers thought about. Also the way people reacted to the aliens in this film felt realistic and not hollywood style, where we want to blow them up. No we actually would think about it, discuss it with the world and see what we be the right choice. That’s awesome.

Even though I have been raving about this film there are some things wrong, minor things nothing that bad. One of them is the acting is just serviceable no one stands out, in fact you could just replace any of these actors with someone else and nobody would notice. Also this is give or take with me, but in the film their is twist with one of the characters and I thought it was kinda of neat but not necessary because you already explain the meaning of the story already. I don’t know I just felt they didn’t need that. These were more nitpicky things than negatives but I thought I should still address them.

For me Arrival is a great film, great storytelling, dialogue, mystery and realistic sci-fi. This had everything that I wanted. If you enjoy science fiction films not science fantasy, science fiction then you’re going to enjoy this film. If you're expecting hyper charge, a lot of action and fast paced film then you're not going to like this film at all. I hope this film made it’s budget back because we need more films like this, I want more films like this, films with different ideas and a slow burn that keeps you on the edge of your seat due to a great mystery. Another great film for 2016. I highly recommend this film go see it, buy it anything so this film can makes it’s budget back.

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