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People (shills?) toss out the term "Masterpiece" far too easily these days. As seen in almost every review below mine. What qualifies THIS as a masterpiece? Nothing. The whole thing feels average at best, and I don't recommend it at all. And I love smart sci-fi. This had potential but traded it off for.... what, I don't even know. It's kind of a "chick flick horror/sci-fi". Was looking forward to this, WANTED to love it, fell flat. A couple sort of interesting sci-fi ideas, that went no where, and just kinda not much good as a movie. I thought the ARRIVAL was much more interesting.

UPDATE: dropped rating to one star to counter act all the fake/paid 10 ratings

LOVED the original, this one was just marginally okay. Lacked all the humane depth the original succeeded at. Without spoiling anything, I will say I felt the MAIN part of the plot SEEMED important, but only because some dialog TOLD you it was. They didn't show it or make you feel it at all, they just tell you how important it is. I guess it really isn't a spoiler because the trailer says, "This breaks the world". Yet over 2.5 hours I never felt anything remotely close to something getting that broken. Except they tell you its important. So, yeah, it's a movie like that. Personally, I'd rather be drawn in to the importance of the whole drive behind the plot, but that's just me.

I recommend it to BR fans, of course, and anyone liking CGI SCI-FI eye candy. I had rated it a 6, but the more I ponder it, the weaker it becomes. Kind of the opposite of the original.

And I should remove stars for expressionless Gosling. Because he does it again.

Fine movie, did what it advertised. Nice to watch. HORRIBLE to listen to. I have GREAT hearing, watch a ton of movies that sound fine, but Nolan's films often times have the DIALOG too low to hear or understand clearly. This is another case of that, and I wish someone on his team would find this and start to correct this issue. If Nolan is okaying the final mix, he needs to turn down that studios center channel, because it, apparently is not balanced like real movie theaters.

Also, FYI, I first watched it in a huge, gold standard, 70mm, IMAX theater with like 24,000 watts of tuned audio. Thinking maybe because it was so loud that may affect the live listening, I then went to a top of the line digital XD theater, and guess what? STILL missed a couple of major lines of dialog explaining their situation. Why is this? It is 2017 and mixing audio is not new.

I'm not alone. My friend attending with me also missed some dialog. Also, there is a post where people will MOVIE CHAT at an ORG that discusses this issue, and many others notice it.

Watch the film and enjoy the presentation, but don't expect to understand all the dialog. Again. In another MumbleRama Nolan production. I'd given it a 10 because I enjoyoed it that much, but knocked it down one for the fail audio.