Arrival (EN) Review
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Aliens. Hollywood absolutely loves them and so do we. Mankind will always be fascinated by them: What would they look like? Would they be friendly? We've seen several movies were this Extra-Terrestrial life decides to visit Earth and most of the time it doesn't end well for us humans. Think about Independence Day (1996), Edge of Tomorrow (2014) or War of the Worlds (2005). So when I heard about another alien invasion movie, Arrival, being released I was interested and when they added Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner to the mix I got not only excited, but also curious. What could this movie offer that others haven't already explored?
Arrival tells the story of linguist Louise Banks. When twelve enormous spaceships, scattered across the planet, land on Earth, she's brought in to help translating of understanding these aliens on the one that landed in the US. The USA has to work together with eleven other countries to find out if these aliens are friendly and soon differences of opinion between the countries start to occur. Can they work together to discover why these aliens did come here and what their purpose is on Earth?
Arrival tackles a few large themes like friendship, trust, love, grief and cooperation. These themes are very beautifully and toughtfully constructed into the storyline. Arrival is not a movie you should watch when you're half asleep, because you really have to pay attention otherwise you might miss a few hints. You and I will probably have to watch this movie twice if we want to catch all those hints that lead to the finale of this movie. The beginning is very strong and the tension is almost perceptible, but they can't hold on to this tension the entire movie, which ofcourse isn't a easy task. Amy Adams gives a good performance, but her character feels a bit depressed and in the end I can't really related to her. The one who keeps surprising me with strong and solid performances is Jeremy Renner, who in this movie steals the show for me. Arrival is defenitly one of 2016's better sciencefiction movies.
MovieManouk
4/5
Aliens. Hollywood absolutely loves them and so do we. Mankind will always be fascinated by them: What would they look like? Would they be friendly? We've seen several movies were this Extra-Terrestrial life decides to visit Earth and most of the time it doesn't end well for us humans. Think about Independence Day (1996), Edge of Tomorrow (2014) or War of the Worlds (2005). So when I heard about another alien invasion movie, Arrival, being released I was interested and when they added Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner to the mix I got not only excited, but also curious. What could this movie offer that others haven't already explored?Arrival tells the story of linguist Louise Banks. When twelve enormous spaceships, scattered across the planet, land on Earth, she's brought in to help translating of understanding these aliens on the one that landed in the US. The USA has to work together with eleven other countries to find out if these aliens are friendly and soon differences of opinion between the countries start to occur. Can they work together to discover why these aliens did come here and what their purpose is on Earth?
Arrival tackles a few large themes like friendship, trust, love, grief and cooperation. These themes are very beautifully and toughtfully constructed into the storyline. Arrival is not a movie you should watch when you're half asleep, because you really have to pay attention otherwise you might miss a few hints. You and I will probably have to watch this movie twice if we want to catch all those hints that lead to the finale of this movie. The beginning is very strong and the tension is almost perceptible, but they can't hold on to this tension the entire movie, which ofcourse isn't a easy task. Amy Adams gives a good performance, but her character feels a bit depressed and in the end I can't really related to her. The one who keeps surprising me with strong and solid performances is Jeremy Renner, who in this movie steals the show for me. Arrival is defenitly one of 2016's better sciencefiction movies.
MovieManouk
4/5
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