ARRIVAL - Movie Review (No Spoilers) Starring Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner

ARRIVAL - Movie Review (No Spoilers) Starring Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner

Does ARRIVAL Convey The Story It Sets Out To Tell? Or Is It Just Another Independence Day... (which was really bad) Find out here!

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By JGrizzle - Nov 10, 2016 04:11 PM EST

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Scarilian - 11/11/2016, 9:26 AM

Spoiler free review was pretty good. Touched on a lot of the main points.

Haven't seen the film yet, but what you imply at 3:40 does hint towards the film having a different outcome - so it should be interesting to watch.

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JGrizzle - 11/11/2016, 11:58 AM

@Scarilian - Thanks dude! Yeah, it really is quite a different movie. Very enjoyable

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