The critics and audiences alike heaped endless amounts of praise on “Arrival” and many considered this sci-fi to be worthy of an Oscar. Maybe I’m an alien from another world because I did not get the attraction with this movie at all. This movie was painfully boring and made absolutely no sense whatsoever.

When a dozen alien spaceships appear, hovering above the surface of the Earth, a linguist (Amy Adams “Man Of Steel”, “American Hustle”) and a theoretical physicist (Jeremy Renner “The Hurt Locker”, “The Bourne Legacy”) are sent to try a communicate with the aliens aboard one of the vessels. Their mission is to discover the aliens’ intentions but time is running out.

Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner are both incredibly dull to watch. There is not a minute of this movie where I cared about either one of these two and it’s such a shame because we have to spend virtually the whole movie with these two trying to communicate with the aliens. Their chemistry is terrible. Forest Whitaker (“The Butler”) is just about tolerable as Colonel Weber The aliens themselves are not remotely intriguing and that’s even when we learn the big revelation about why exactly they are on Earth.

“Arrival” has a one of the stupidest final acts I’ve ever witnessed in a movie. The plot holes are just so large, that it’s hard to believe a human being wrote this. This film is like “Independence Day” at a snail’s pace, it is just dreadful. There are many reasons why “2001: A Space Odyssey” works and “Arrival” doesn’t, one of the most important is that “2001: A Space Odyssey” had real intelligence whereas “Arrival” merely tries to imitate intelligence. It isn’t as open about its ridiculousness as “Stargate” or “Independence Day”, it instead tries to deceive the viewer.