Overall I felt this was all over the place and a bit random.
⚠️ Spoilers below
What I liked:
Actions scenes. Spielberg is a master director (as we know).
The panic attack scene. Emily Blunt can act.
Following Emily Blunt discovering her new powers was captivating and funny.
The discourse around religion and God.
What I didn't like:
There is a big problem with the lack of originally of what is to be disclosed. It is the product of 50+ years of urban legends and usual popular representation of aliens. I remember seeing fake alien videos on LiveLeak that looked exactly like the ones in the movie, in the late 2000s, well before generative AI was a thing.
So it's not a matter of shocking spectators by new visual representations, but a matter of convincing them that it is, actually, the truth. And how does the movie deal with this? Well, it doesn't. The disclosure is extremely shoddy journalistic work where videos are being streamed straight from a stranger's USB key to the live feed of network TV, while a news anchor doesn't know what she is broadcasting.
And when the movie finally looks like it's gonna bring some new idea on top of this pile of urban legends (that is, when it lets the alien say something to us), it bamboozles us by just ending!
(This is the main point I dislike, I'm not gonna talk about the CGI animals, the bizarre instrument or the goofy invisibility thing.)
Overall I felt this was all over the place and a bit random.
⚠️ Spoilers below
What I liked:
What I didn't like:
There is a big problem with the lack of originally of what is to be disclosed. It is the product of 50+ years of urban legends and usual popular representation of aliens. I remember seeing fake alien videos on LiveLeak that looked exactly like the ones in the movie, in the late 2000s, well before generative AI was a thing.
So it's not a matter of shocking spectators by new visual representations, but a matter of convincing them that it is, actually, the truth. And how does the movie deal with this? Well, it doesn't. The disclosure is extremely shoddy journalistic work where videos are being streamed straight from a stranger's USB key to the live feed of network TV, while a news anchor doesn't know what she is broadcasting.
And when the movie finally looks like it's gonna bring some new idea on top of this pile of urban legends (that is, when it lets the alien say something to us), it bamboozles us by just ending!
(This is the main point I dislike, I'm not gonna talk about the CGI animals, the bizarre instrument or the goofy invisibility thing.)