Personally I love action movies but I thought this one was great in a different way.
In most movies “alien” just means “slightly strange but basically not something you’d be surprised to see in a documentary about insects”,
This movie trys to deal with the fact that genuine aliens from a completely different culture might be (like the universe); “not just queerer than we suppose; but queerer than we can suppose” -J. B. S. Haldane.
So I thought it was a thoughtful movie with a brilliant female lead. The pacing was excellent, and even when I worked out what might be going on (suspected fairly early things wern’t necessarily in chronological order) it made me want to watch it again with a new perspective rather than think it was a dumb idea because I’d worked out “something was going on”.
P.S. It feels like it should be unnecessary to say this, but If you’re watching a movie, theres probably _something_ going on, unless its a particularly bad movie.