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Charon - Terrific acting is tempered by a somewhat too slice-of-life style story that doesn't particularly hold up well in its own genre. Robert Patrick is a treasure as usual, putting on a brilliant performance. Really all the actors do a phenomenal job here, the problem really is just the limitations of this film. Since it is based on a real account of an alien abduction, it's hard for the film to do much beyond tell you that story without the actual people looking too foolish for imagining something outlandish. I find it difficult to call it a horror film, as horrifying as I'm sure being abducted and tested upon is and I in no way want to discount the stories of anyone who believes that's happened to them, but as a film I can only rate this so high on the strength of the actors.

Karo - This bunch of loggers sees a UFO in the sky, and because one of them is a dumbass he ends up abducted and thoroughly probed. The group comes under suspicion of having murdered their friend, and some attempt at resolution is made by a lot of idiot rednecks shouting in each others faces. Not really a whole lot else happens in the film, the aliens never reappear except in flashback, it's just these grubby lumberjacks protesting over and over that they reaaaaaally did see their friend get kidnapped by E.T. and they werent just taking LSD on the job. It is very hampered by being based on a 'true' story and thus limiting the plot from taking any surprising turns. Or any turns at all, really.

Johnbobb - That abduction flashback scene would've made an INCREDIBLE short film. It's a shame you have to watch an hour of angsty blue collar UFO sighting politics to get to it.

KBM - This is a horror movie? Huh. Well, regardless of genre, this movie really only makes it even this high on my list for one reason only: the actual alien abduction scene, once it finally happens, lives up to its reputation and makes for a genuinely harrowing 15 minutes or so. But man, that 15 minutes is just about the only substantial thing about this movie, which for the most part was a slog to get through. The actors are clearly doing their best here, but I spent most of the nearly two-hour runtime utterly bored by this slow slice-of-life tale about a bunch of toxic asshole rednecks. It's telling that the scenes aboard the alien craft have almost nothing at all to do with Travis Walton's actual account of what happened almost as if the filmmakers would have been better off scrapping the based on a true story angle and coming up with a more interesting story entirely to surround the abduction scenes
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