First Light - Die Auserwählte

Wow.

There's an hour and a half I'll never get back...

this film, which has decent cinematography and acting, doesn't know what it wants to be when it grown up and, hence, it's much ado about nothing in the end.

No real plot. Movie doesn't hang together. The first 2/3 is a different movie entirely and has little bearing on the last third, which sort of centers around the promised plot.

But then is falls flat and ends horribly.

If you liked the "non-ending ending" of Lost you'll love this.

Avoid.

I really enjoyed this movie and had no idea what it was about before watching it. Great acting scenery and effects. I always thought the film distributor " Gravitas Ventures " brought out Naff movies but this little Gem has proven me wrong! It's a 7 from me.

This is my first review. I decided to try this movie in spite of some hateful reviews I had read. I'm glad I did. The movie was engaging and interesting, well produced and with appropriately worthy special effects. I felt it was slightly reminiscent of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' at certain points. I give it 8 out of 10 to help offset some of the ugly negative reviews.

This is neither a great scifi film nor the worst ever made. Come on folks, have a little balance in your reviews.

If you're going to watch a teen-oriented movie, don't condemn it for being teen oriented. Seriously. That's like the atheists who watch religious films and then slam them for being faith oriented. Don't be goofy.

This film has some unusually good directing and filming. The plot is a little thin and it's a little slow-moving, but it doesn't have "no ending" as some claim here; it's just not the tucked-in-a-box ending they wanted or expected.

The characters were well-designed and the actors played the parts well. For once there was no cliche evil clandestine governmental conspiracy plots going on. This is a first-contact story without all the neat and tidies. That's based on simple common sense: If first-contact occurred with an alien species, what makes us think we would have anything at all in common as a starting ground?

This is (as was fully declared from the beginning) a teen romance film. No it didn't all make sense. For example... how is it he starts out selling jewelry in a pawn shop for $20 because "we need the money"... then later they have enough cash for pizzas and medicine and bus tickets and whatever they need? So yeah, it could have been better thought out.

So no, not the best movie ever made, nor the absolute worst. It's standard scifi.

I found the watch enjoyable, not disappointing at the end, and basically entertaining. I give films 5 stars for "mediocre but tolerable". This one gets a 6. Not quite good enough for anything above that, but worth the watch.

Give it a chance. Watch til the end and you'll get it. It drags a little, but pay attention. I thought it was a good teenage romance/science fiction. I like movies where I have an emotional connection with the main characters, and I did. I recommend to teens and over.