I had to laugh a little. Towards the end when Jaxx meets up with the monkey guy who has bags of monkeys in the trunk of her car, she gets upset because the monkeys are in plastic bags and not contained in coolers in ice. That means they need to rush to a site and get them on ice. While she is expressing her concern over that, you can see over her shoulder a sign that says "Market" and people filling up their cars with gas, so they really had ice and coolers just feet away for purchase. I know that's a little nitpicky. I actually gave the 6 out of ten because it was well enough acted I guess and an interesting story. Still had that cheesy cable channel feel to it. One of the signs of cheese is when they have the protagonist prove how smart they are by dialogue with others who are over the top stupid or antagonistic. The two parts that struck me was when Jaxx was introducing that soldier to level 4 and he was all "uhhhh, ummm, uhhhh". It's like they had to make him so scared and not professional to make her seem all the more confident. And then the Topher Grace character. They show signs of him knowing that there are risks like right after he smells what's in the beaker or when he stares at the beer glass that the waitress takes away, but he just still has to be obstinate for the sake of it.
Review of Arrival
