 My bare skull is going to be more interesting to you than this movie. I had another free movie pass because I gave blood a couple months ago. I have zero interest in seeing Doctor Strange. None whatsoever. This movie was getting a lot of good reviews. I looked at Rotten Tomatoes. It was 99%. Actually it was at 100%. I went ahead and went. I should have seen that super high number as a warning because it's always wrong. I'll tell you exactly what I was thinking as I got up out of my seat and was walking toward the aisle. I was thinking, I'm going to have to think about this movie. But I suspect that the longer I think about it, the less I'll be interested in thinking about it further. And sure enough, by the time I had walked through the lobby and to the sidewalk in front of the cinema, I had already decided, you saw what I tweeted before, Typical Hollywood, bland, empty movie. Don't bother. All of this talk about this movie being intelligent and being different, it's wrong. It's always wrong when people talk like that about a new movie. There is nothing interesting about this movie. Nothing. For those of us who read science fiction, there is not one single interesting new different about this movie. The aliens are not interesting. Their language is not interesting. The way they seem to view time differently than we do is not interesting. The ending is not interesting. And everything is gray. Everything is colorless and gray. Just like every other movie. In fact, early on in the film, there was an extended scene where the CGI was so clumsy and so amateur that I couldn't believe it. It looked like a YouTube edit. The whole story was completely formulaic beginning to end. Nothing unusual, nothing different, nothing surprising. It uses the Pixar formula. The first scene is a tragedy with a child dying of cancer and her mother being ulteriored and trying to cope and getting by from day to day. So, boohoo. That's just manipulation. That's not story. That's not backstory. And if you've seen the trailers, this movie is exactly what you think it's going to be. Amy Adams happens to be the greatest genius linguist in the world. Ghost Dog shows up and somehow makes her in charge of everything. And just as the Chinese military is about to start nuking the flying saucers, she... Boom! She comes up with these secrets to the alien language that saves the day. The end. I do not approve of stories, movies, books, stories of any kind that use surprise time travel as a way to solve every problem, to just get around every problem and say, oh look, no problems anymore. This is kind of what happened here. And they also use the Save Martha trick. What does that mean? Why did you say that name? And she was there too, remember? Yeah, there's nothing interesting about this movie. It's just another Hollywood formula that people think is a smart movie. But really the aliens were really, really disappointing. They could have been so interesting. There was one thing that was presented at the end as if it were supposed to be a surprise or even a shock. But of course it wasn't. If you're paying attention, you saw it coming from the beginning of the film. I hate that. I can't stand that kind of thing. It's just a waste of your time, a waste of your money. When it comes on Netflix, maybe watch it. I don't see why you should bother. There's not even any interesting music. There's no explosions. There's no fighting. There's just nothing. So there.