Captivating movie !

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

This was a decently made movie, and payed homage to the LEGEND.If as much money was spent investigating the actual events, we might actually learn something.The movie was along to lines of the disinformation that Martin Sheen's character threw at the main character.IF the son was the recipient of alien materials, as the movie suggests, where is he now, and where is that interview? IF the mother witnessed was she was supposed to have witnessed that night the main character brought the debris home, did she give an interview, where is that for the public? etc, etc, etc....UNTIL we are no longer influenced by the engineers of controlled thought, those who spin, who are bought, who are PROFESSIONALS at portraying information, then movies like this are as significant as (insert irrelevant BS here).Or, maybe we are really alone.

Kyle MacLachlan is the real-life retired USAF Major Jesse Marcel. He was one of the first people to handle the debris from a suspected alien spacecraft crash on a remote field in Roswell, New Mexico. The government then ordered him to shut up. Many years later, at a reunion of his unit, MacLachlan is old and dying of emphysema, and is intent on prying the Truth out of the several others who were involved in collecting and disposing of the mysterious trash.It's pretty dull going, even for UFOlogists. MacLachlan goes from barbecue to swimming pool to dinners, encountering others, and getting their stories in flashbacks.The more dubious aspects of the legend -- disappearing participants, living alien corpses, "men in dark suits" -- are accepted with the same eager alacrity as the more credible claims -- the government's throwing all kinds of humdrum explanations against the wall to see if any of them stick, the tendency of agencies to beef up their own importance by classifying information about what they do.The movie gives you the legend in its full-blown form here, with Michael Sheen showing up as "Townsend", the man who takes MacLachlan aside and spills the beans in their entirety, in a scene that is an anti-climax if there ever was one. The explanation is all hearsay from an anonymous source. MacLachlan must depart the scene still in a state of distress and confusion.With the exception of some of the supporting players, the acting is perfunctory. The direction is pedestrian. There isn't any real tension and there is no real ending. It all just seems to fade away.These comments, I ought to emphasize, are about the movie, not about the question of UFOs. I should think that by now, with multiple, credible witnesses, the presence of something inexplicable is indisputable. Oh, maybe not alien space ships but surely something. The alternative belief is that many of our military and commercial pilots, scientists, police officers -- people to whom we entrust our lives -- are crazy. Well, let's throw out 99% of the most reliable sighting. That leaves 1% who are believable. All it takes is one case. Too bad none of the UFOs has been obliging enough to put down on the White House lawn.

This movie presents the details of the Incident at Roswell very accurately in accordance with the books published on the event. Whilst the movie obviously portrays the incident to be the crash of an alien craft in New Mexico in 1947, the scene in which Martin Sheen and Kyle MacLachlan meet in the hangar I believe gives the viewer the opportunity to make up their own mind about that incident and other U.F.O. sightings in general.Whilst much of the movie revolves around Jesse Marcel,the government's efforts to make him look like a fool, and the subsequent cover ups, I felt the viewer was given the chance to understand why such an issue would have to be hidden from the general public. I believe the producers and director were smart to avoid the over the top, cliché, tacky Hollywood conspiracy theory theme.Whilst the movie is based on the events at Roswell in 1947 some scenes that have been dramatised for the purposes of the movie are wonderfully incorporated to allow the viewer the opportunity to understand why the government would hide such an event. In particular, the scene in which a secret government committee has been set up to investigate the incident and the round table discussion that takes place. The dialogue such as, "We're here to ensure domestic tranquility, not eliminate it", "what of our religious institutions", and "what if this was to all come out, what are people going to believe" gives the viewer an understanding for why the government would shield us from such information.The War of the Worlds radio broadcast in 1939 demonstrates how feeble minded the human race is to the possibility that we are not alone. If suddenly we were told that yes there was a crash of an alien spacecraft in New Mexico in 1947 then the world would go into a frenzy. The beliefs of an overwhelming percentage of the world's population, in particular religious institutions who are of the view we are the sole occupants of this enormous universe, would be instantly proved wrong. To tell such a large number of people that what they have believed their whole life is completely inaccurate would have devastating consequences. The government has to protect the majority of its people from themselves.Therefore the information needs to be leaked slowly to allow people the chance to make up their own mind over a long period of time. That, in my view, is what is happening.A wonderful movie perfectly produced that has not been given the full credit it deserves. The movie is not for those with a simple, uncomplicated mind however. You need to be able to think in a complex manner. Try watching it with an unbiased view on the event and see what you believe afterwards.Some who have criticised the movie, in particular students from Melbourne, might be better advised to ask their teachers to try movies such as High School High, Down Periscope or Date Movie to better evaluate how a movie should not be made. Every movie made can have the s#*t picked out of it if you are watching it to do such.Roswell is essential viewing on more than one occasion.

One thing that impressed me a bit about his movie were the scenes of government officials discussing what to do in the wake of Roswell. I consider it highly likely that the coverup was (and still is) motivated primarily by a realization that advanced ETs, if revealed, would devastate existing religious beliefs and political institutions. Also intriguing were the tactics proposed to help the coverup. Bad information was to be leaked through good sources and good information through bad sources. There is fairly good evidence of this. The whole Roswell case is awash with nonsense and disinformation put out by people in touch with the government, notably Corso, Courtney Brown and K.Korff.The latter supports the official line that no ET crash occurred; it was just a balloon array, supposedly difficult to identify because it consisted of 23 balloons. But many people can see through official explanations, so outright denial must be supplemented by disinformation.If they can't prevent some people from believing at least they can try to prevent them from drawing the right conclusions.That is the purpose of disinformation. The truth is that Roswell was a deliberate crash, intended to contact the government without frightening it, as landing intact would have. Note that the aliens don't land and reveal themselves yet, not any more than the government discloses their existence. The two have collaborated since the outset, in 1947.To obscure this, Corso portrayed the aliens as hostile, while the putative briefing document says their intentions are completely unknown. The obvious implication, and purpose of the phoney document, is to discredit the reality: ET-government collaboration.