I'd seen this film many years ago, and I remembered bits and pieces. My viewing partner commented on the excessive use of music throughout the film, and once this had been drawn to my attention, I couldn't quite block it out.
The film is OK. I liked a lot of the ideas behind it, but I wasn't sure of the execution in parts. It reminded me a lot of the the film Arrival, which I saw at the cinema in November last year. But I have to say that this film hasn't aged so well, and that Arrival just does it all a lot better.
We couldn't quite work out how Matthew McConaughey's character went from being some crackpot journalist in the jungle, all the way to being some hotshot bigwig in the White House. It seemed to be the most far-fetched aspect of the story.
It made me want to watch Carl Sagan's TV series called Cosmos. 6/10
