Too much of everything

Just perfect...

Captivating movie !

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

The sound effects & pursuit technique scared the hell out of me and this is saying something because I was raised on Twilight Zone, Outer limits and a plethora of drive-in horror movies as a child & toddler. So less than a handful of thousands of films ever affected me. Those were "The Brain that wouldn't die" "Five" "Saturn 3" and "Darkness". To a lesser degree "Haunting in Connecticut" "Ring" & "The Grudge".Most of the other reviewers were either neophytes who were not born when this film came out or skeptics who would not appreciate any UF0 film. It would be tantamount to me reviewing Westerns. I don't like Westerns, so I have no business reviewing one since I could never give a fair opinion of a genre I didn't like. Neophytes who were not alive in the 50's-80's should not be judging films or methods which they have no direct knowledge or experience of those timeframes. Much less compare them to modern styles & technologies.At The end of the film is a screen statement which says it is based on a true story & all the gov't info was factual. You cannot apply cinematic criticism to a true story. To do so demonstrates the lack of maturity level in someone who cannot separate depiction of truth versus fiction. Let's give this film the leeway that it is based on a true story as it has stated. We cannot dispute this claim since none of us were present. Those who go out of their way to dispute the veracity of these events are usually some gov't hireling spreading disinfo or some know nothing bully trying to exert dissension & control to satiate their need to belittle others. So let's take the producers word that this film is based on true events.This is a British film setting so it is typically low key.Here are the spoiler events of the film: The film begins with a photographer & his model accidentally filming ET's in the background of a photo session. The photographer returns to the location, becomes terrified & runs to a nearby home for refuge. The model becomes concerned & a media friend takes the photographers negatives & consults a UF0 expert while the model returns to the location to search for the photographer who was since taken by the ET's. The model also disappears.Neighbors notice 2 abandoned cars & call police. The house the photographer sought for refuge was discovered to have a fired shotgun in the yard, an unconscious owner who died soon after & a blinded dog. The ET's go around destroying evidence. The couple reporting the cars are found dead and military soldiers guarding a UF0 landing site are found dead from radiation. A "men in black" British organization called "the Silencers" takes over. Unlike MIB, they beat up, steal evidence, & kill witnesses with brutal deliberation. They confiscate the negatives & everything else. Police find the model catatonic. The media reporter discovers his assistant is a Silencer who has been spying & helped kidnap the model.The reporter & UFO expert rescue the model, kill the bad guys & find a psychic to communicate. The model dies. The Silencers arrive & machine gun down the reporter & UF0 expert. The photographer is shown dead in the UFO which departs after all the evidence & witnesses are dead.Despite the pace & low key style, I found the movie quite interesting & downright scary.I only recommend this movie to UF0 buffs.

A man is doing a photo shoot with a model out in the middle of a field somewhere, and unknowingly he get's footage of alien craft, and aliens. Once he finds out what he's got he stashes the negatives. Sooner or later someone finds out about it,, a clandestine group within the World Government find out and they will stop and nothing to get the negatives back, because they feel if the information is released to the public at large, it will cause a worldwide panic. Meanwhile the photographer place is tossed and everyone is looking for the negatives, the model shows up later in the movie after being traumatized by the aliens although we do not see this part in the movie,, overall it wasn't bad the first half of the movie,, but the second half just turned me off. so that's why I'm going with a 4 rating.

This film was not nearly as much of a chore as I expected it to be. There are a few seconds of brilliance in this somewhat idiotic hardcore UFO conspiracy paranoia-fest. Most of the acting is mediocre, but fairly typical for 1970s-style stuff replete with pregnant pauses. A photographer and a model witness some strange goings-on in the woods and soon fall victim to these same goings-on. Flying saucers are spotted, more people disappear - but is it the aliens or our own government's ultra-secret group of cover-up guys? Soon enough, a reporter and a "UFOlogist" (apparently modeled on the character of the writer-director) are drawn into this unraveling fiasco and become the target of the ultra-secret agents who are as menacing as they are improbable and witless. Then the fun really begins.The movie, predictably, makes about as much sense as the average UFO conspiracy theory, but should be commended for taking itself so seriously. The camera work is OK for a low-budget film, the pacing is pretty good, the script is silly and absurd, and there are continuity issues which are fun to look out for. What are the few seconds of brilliance I mentioned? Honestly, I can't say much you without writing a spoiler. Suffice to say that the end of the film is, at least, worth fast-forwarding to if you can't take the middle.

First, this movie contains no excitement. None. Not an ounce. If you don't like watching B-movies, you don't need to see this. Even if you like B-movies, this one is difficult to sit through, but it has a few things going for it.Second, it's hardly an ET rip-off. (Did the previous two commentators see the same movie? No way.)Rather than ET, it more resembles the TV series called "UFO". Some of the characters even pronounce that abbreviation as a word, like "you-foe", which is how they always pronounced "UFO" on "UFO". Early on, the movie does a decent job of presenting a mildly creepy "the aliens are stalking us" mood, & in one or two places, characters speculate that aliens abduct humans to experiment on them. Both of those aspects reminded me of "UFO". Also, there are some scenes through an alien's eye-view. (Oh yeah, & during those scenes, one of the sound-effects is definitely from the Doctor Who story called "Robot".)But the plot doesn't stay with the "aliens are stalking us" premise. It meanders all over the map of plots. It goes nearly everywhere a plot can go: creepiness, missing persons, journalistic story-hunting, police crime investigation, government conspiracy, international conspiracy, double-crossing double-agents, & even psychics. The plot changes so often & so thoroughly that I felt almost like I was watching different movies. I'd say this is the movie's biggest problem; it's like the writer didn't know what kind of movie he wanted to create.There's a character who just HAS to be the inspiration for The X-Files' Cancer Man. Even the actor looks like the one who plays Cancer Man. When I saw that character, which is also about the time the plot turns to conspiracy theories, it made me suspect that this movie was some of the inspiration behind The X-Files. I'd almost bet on it. There are also some alien-abduction scenes & talk that resemble that same theme as it's expressed in The X-Files. (But if you are an X-Files fan, don't count on this movie to give you a supplementary X-Files fix. Your standards are probably way too high.)A curiosity: The version I watched had an English dubbed sound-track. I believe the movie is Spanish (?), but every printed word I recall seeing was English. I thought that was mildly interesting.The ending was unexpected, I'll grant. I'm not saying it was inspiring, insightful, or clever. I just didn't see it coming.So, it's a bad movie, for sure, but there are some things about it that provide some food for thought or analysis if you're the kind of person who wants to look for it. (But it really is a pretty bad movie.)