> Many seem to criticize this adaptation for not exploring the same themes or reaching the same conclusions as the original It didn't need do that. It could've

> Many seem to criticize this adaptation for not exploring the same themes or reaching the same conclusions as the original It didn't need do that. It could've told a totally different story and been set in Rio and it would've been fine if the script wasn't in Hollywood formula 101. I saw this movie before and it was called Robocop. And the dialogue was beyond awful. Arrival took a chance and assumed that the audience wasn't intellectually sterile. Pacific Rim (which I love btw) and its intentionally bad plot was better. The whitewashing bothers me not so much that the Major needed to be Asian per se. It's that Hollywood just doesn't think an asian person can be a lead in a movie that doesn't have kung fu in it.