Roy Tang

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Arrival spoiler-free review:

  • first half a bit boring
  • Forrest Whitaker is hard to understand
  • not sure if it was just the cinema I was at, but the audio and the lighting seemed quite bad at some points
  • that being said, the movie was ok. I think it’s comparable to, but not as good as, Interstellar
  • if you watch it with people who don’t pay attention, you’ll have to explain stuff

Comments

Interesting concept, def not your usual scifi space opera lots of explosions sort of thing.
I liked this better than Interstellar. Less impressive visuals, but the plot was cleaner and the sf-ness of it was better quality. It felt like a high budget Outer Limits episode, I guess. We also watched John Wick 2. Amusing, also there was a bit of a Bruce Lee homage.