The marketing conceals and obscures a lot, images that will only really make sense in context.
It has the roving camera including around moving vehicles as in his War of The Worlds, and the big action moment reminded me of Jurassic Park and a presumably autobiographical moment early in The Fabelmans.
But while he’s famously looked at this before, the project of his it actually made me think of most was the miniseries he executive produced, Taken.
Because it has a couple of people who were visited young, and gives a lot of time to the people hunting them.
It makes the argument for secrecy as well as against it, though it does put its thumb on the scales.
And it takes a long time to get to properly seeing the aliens, like Close Encounters, and they’re a bit of a letdown like they were there too.
It starts and ends with POV shots, the first of which is kind of baffling. And then what may or may not be the second Highlander reference of this month’s SFF movies.
I loved Margaret’s greatest weapon being using her insight gently. And then my favourite moment, refusing to be seen as a religious figure.
The thriller element had the issue that the only character I was worried for was Jane, as Daniel and Margaret have space magic on their side and she doesn’t. But I was worried enough for her to work.
There are like two jokes, but one is pretty fun and the other is great.
And the ending will be a letdown for some, but I felt like “ah, of course.”
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