Customer Ratings & Reviews

Arrival is a film that asks what would happen if aliens were real, and how we would react to their presence. The exploration of plausible alien communication is fascinating. Beautifully shot and imagined.

Ok movie; great bass if you have subs that can pull it off.

One of my favorite movies! Unique plot for an alien movie. Highly recommend!

I can watch this movie time and time again. Each time I notice small details that keep the movie interesting. I like the message of language and sharing amongst the 12 countries where the spaceships hover.

Put your thinking caps on for this one. the movie is engaging but you have to very observant and follow every minute of the movie to figure out the end of the movie. But if you get it, it is mind blowing.

Arrival is a movie that truly makes you think. It's use of symbolism and slow-story telling creates an atmosphere great for any viewer. Expect it to be slow, but the payoff at the end is worth the wait.

We have watched this several times and always notice something new with each viewing. Brilliant script, fine acting and knock-out score keeps drawing us back. Do yourself a favor and check it out.

This is a smart, thoughtful science fiction take that I highly recommend. I recently upgraded to the 4K version just to be able to soak in more details. The audio is absolutely incredible...

If you’re a fan of hard sci-fi and very heady themes, his is perfect for you. If you’re a fan of the director too, this is a darn great film.

Not much of an interesting plot, relying on special effects to hold the viewer's attention. Probably not something I would want to watch again.

This movie was a little boring and really didn't get what it was about. I wasn't satisfied with it. I thought the premise of the movie was interesting. I think that if we do encounter the good kind of alien we would have to figure out a way to communicate. It never actually answers why they come though which disappointed me with no great conclusion. If I were to recommend this it would have to be to a hard core alien searcher.

I got this as a gift for my father-in-law after my brother-in-law and I were raving about it to him. Best Director making movies today, can’t wait for Dune.

Very classy and beautiful steelbook for any collection. The movie is very engaging and will make any movie buff happy.

Though I wish they would of gone a bit more creative since the movie is so out there, its still a decent steelbook

This movie was great. I liked because it kept you on the seat of your pants. Was a challenge to figure out why the aliens came to our planet. Great ending

Great performances, compelling story and themes, technical aspects are astounding and top notch direction! A must see for both sci-fi and movie fans alike!

Here we have some legitimate science fiction, and it's definitely thought provoking as good SF should be. This could have been adapted from a story by Isaac Asimov or Phillip K. Dick or someone. (Eh actually I'm not sure it wasn't based on a Dick story.) Anyway, the plot is actually pretty original, the characters are mostly interesting, the dialog is good, and the tone is just about pitch perfect. I suspect that those who are parents might appreciate this even more than I did. I saw it twice in the theater, and it was well worth it. Initially, I did kind of feel like they played a little bit of dirty pool with the plot at one point - I don't want to say more and spoil it for someone who hasn't seen it - but after more consideration and some good conversations with my friends and family, I reached a different conclusion. This will mess with your mind a little bit, but not in bad way. This is the kind of movie that provokes interesting discussions with the people you watch it with - and the kind of thing you're happy to recommend to anyone who asks. It's not perfect; there are some irritatingly stereotypical (and rather flat) characters driving key plot points - but overall this is a very worthwhile movie.

A wonderful cast that is superb! Amy Adam's is wonderful as the code breaker Dr. Louise Banks. It is definitely worth watching more than once!

I don't have a 4K tv or UHD Blu player to watch this on yet, but it comes with the regular Blu-ray and I figured it was worth few extra bucks now instead of double-dipping in a few years. This was one of my favorite films of 2016 when I saw it in the theater. Denis Villenueve (director of SICARIO and INCENDIES) has given us an intelligent slow burn sci-fi film without excessive explosions or idiotic robots battling while looking like a spinning levitating trash heap (I'm looking at you Mr. Bay). If you like smart sci-fi, or are a bit of a language geek who has been waiting for a major film to make a linguist the main character, you should definitely check out ARRIVAL, otherwise you should still check it out for the excellent performance by Amy Adams so you can join the rest of us who think she was robbed of an Oscar nomination (perhaps instead of Meryl Streep getting nominated for an ok comedy). I can't comment on the 4K & HDR quality, but have heard good reviews of it being a noticeable improvement over the 1080p Blu version despite being a 2K mastered film up-scaled to 4K (as unfortunately happens on a number of modern films, probably so they can save time/money -- LA LA LAND was shot on film, reportedly scanned at 5K and had digital intermediate done at 2K and then got bumped up to 4K for theaters and UHD). I would prefer if all 4K releases had DI done in 4K instead of 2K, but if its done well and colors in HDR are done well, it can still be worth a few bucks for the upgrade

This is a great first contact movie. Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner give their A game and the story is really original. Highly recommend.