IMDb meta-data is a runtime of 1h and 22m, rated 5.0 by 5,300 cinematizens.
Genre: SciFi.
DNA: Area 54.
Verdict: Enjoyable.
Tagline: A skeptic comes to believe.
A documentary film maker debunks alien abduction stories for pleasure and profit until…the inevitable. We all saw that coming but it arrived with a fresh twist and a surprising turn.
What better place to collect material than at a convention of such delusional abductees within range of the New Mexico Film Commission grant scheme, so off he goes with his loyal cameraman in tow. He is impossibly handsome and knows it with his carefully cultivated stubble, trimmed every day to look untrimmed. Oh hum. A dime a dozen in the celluoidverse.
Hardened skeptic that he is, something about one of the stories rings, well, true. Of course it involves a comely young woman, so we all know where that is going.
Predictable though much of it is in outline, it is played with pace, verve, and conviction, and the writing is enigmatic, intriguing even. The plot is an onionskin and just when Handsome thinks he has revealed all, all is revealed to, not by, him. Ooops!
Made on the equivalent of half of the catering budget for a Hollywood mega bores like those of Wes Anderson, Christopher Nolan, or Denis Villeneuve, it may be cheap, but it has a big imagination! Unlike so many of those derivative and repetitive flops churned out in La La Land with big budgets spent by small minds trying to imitate someone else’s success – ‘in the tradition of’ is the give away.