Proximity

This movie literally has everything, and that is the problem. I have never seen a movie where 50% is honestly good and the other 50% is film-school horrible.

Overall the acting, special effects, and idea of the movie are good. But, the plot, pacing, and "black-ops government scenes" are so dumb (and out of place) they're comical. I have never edited film in my whole life, but I guarantee I can turn this stinker into a decent story with 30 minutes in the editing room.

This movie has it all! Including (in no particular order): -Alien Abductions -Main Character who is "finding himself" -A train "chase" scene -Cyborgs on motorcycles -A lot of 1990's technology in 2020??? -Social Media bullying -Cable News -A 5,000 mile non-stop Cessna flight from Costa Rica to Canada (Impossible) -Breaking out of Prison -oh, and Jesus (yes, Jesus Christ)

This film is kind of a fascinating trainwreck of someone who was trying to be Spielberg but also wanted to be John Hughes. It mean, it's so...uneven. The photography is fine, the dialogue is above average, the acting solid. But I would never have thought this was written and directed by the same person; it feels like the writer and director were at odds with each other.

The basis of the story is a video of an alien that a guy says he shot, and the story is driven by whether it is real or not...but you never get to see the video. It's like a McGuffin...but you NEED to see it to validate the other characters' responses. It's cheating the viewer by not letting you see it for yourself.

And the music is TERRIBLE. Invasive, and tries to drive the emotion of the scene in all the wrong directions. I swear, if I produced this and heard that music in the final cut, I would have paid out of my own pocket to have it re-scored.

It's not awful. It's not unwatchable. But it always feels off tempo, off balance...and not in a good way.

Overall: Meh.

A carpenter has become an expert in communications and satellites, built a station and was able to receive an encrypted broadcast and decode it and turn it into an understandable language, while the government couldn't!!!

They fled in the middle of the woods in Costa Rica and suddenly a magic solution to all their problems is shown meters away. A communications and computer expert with an untraceable Internet connection and he has all the connections that can provide them with a boat and a flight to take them from Costa Rica to Canada.

The movie is supposed to be in the present days , the main character is a computer engineer, and still uses a huge size camera from the 1990s or 1980s that doesn't even have a display screen and still uses VCR tapes.

Governmental agent that easily gives an order to shoot unarmed woman, and all his men simply execute the order

And finally aliens navigating the universe searching for jesus.

Sat through this thinking we may have a very rare but decent Sci-Fi film, sadly it wasn't the case. Okay it was a watchable yarn, but that's all it was. The budget was there the CGI and locations were there and everything about this film said quality but apart from some dodgy acting moments something just didn't click or gel. Again, the most important 10 minutes of First Contact dialogue at the end of the film was over shadowed by annoying and unnecessary music making it difficult to hear the dialogue...Why do movie producers insist on doing that these days!....Dialogue or music not both and certainly not at the same time!

This kind of matter, involving abductions and alien's contacts, are pretty known to everyone that likes it. This story has a good approach of what could happen to abducted people, and the trama is nice. However, this story has gaps that could be solved if the film was a little longer to give us some more information.

In the end, not so bad but not so good. It worth watching only once, just that.