<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/arrival-filmnov16.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-4065" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/arrival-filmnov16-192x300.jpg" alt="arrival-filmnov16" width="192" height="300" /></a>Over the past week several people have mentioned the Sci Fi film Arrival saying it is a disappointment whereas the newspaper critics have been giving it 5 stars. So who is right? Well I can't answer that question but I can tell you that I really enjoyed it.

It's difficult to write a review of the film without giving too much away because the whole idea is quite different. If you are a Sci Fi fan you will have seen 2001 A Space Odyssey and Close Encounters of a Third Kind and this film takes a little of each and combines them but it's nothing like either. It isn't about time travel but it does explore the idea of time not being linear and what we think of the future might actually be part of a parallel existence that can be recalled. You see, it's complicated. You come away from this film thinking through how and why it all hangs together. It isn't a film that has lots of loud bangs and scary moments (ok maybe one or two) but it does keep you asking questions.

I liked it a lot...