Contactee

The key to a bad movie is the same as the key to a good one: The writing.

I get it. The idea is to present an extraterrestrial movie in some way that hasn't been done to death. The writing is almost passable. There's a quick test to rate screenwriting: imagine reading the story as a novel instead of seeing it as a movie. The camerawork, acting, music composition... even the direction are all artistic attempts to interpret one original vision: that of the writer. (Of course, it should help that the writer is also the director, as in this movie. But then this is just proving my point. Not even the writer himself can bring good direction out of a bad script.)

There are some artsy attempts at some scenes, and I appreciate the nonlinear approach (once again) in the plotline. But the bottom line is this movie would have bombed even without the pandemic crushing its big premiere plans. People may blame it on a lot a things, but the bottom line is this movie was poorly written.

When I stumbled upon this 2021 movie from writer and director Vincent Caldoni, I must admit that the synopsis for the movie was actually selling the movie well enough. At least it made me pick up the movie and give it a go.

And wow, this movie was tedious and so incredibly slow paced and boring that it was a drag to sit through it. In fact, I managed to endure a painstaking 45 minutes of the ordeal that is known as "Contactee", then I gave up out of sheer and utter boredom.

The movie is listed as a sci-fi movie, I suppose pure undiluted boredom is not a movie genre, huh?

The storyline told in "Contactee" was just devoid of anything even remotely interesting and the story dragged on at an incredible snail pace. It is virtually one of the most boring and mundane movies I have had the misfortune of suffering through - well, partially through, to be honest. Yeah, the storyline just completely failed to enthrall me and offered no entertainment or enjoyment whatsoever.

"Contactee" has a small list of casted actors and actresses, and they literally had next to nothing to work with, so it was painful to watch them struggle with the lack of a script like fish out of water, flailing around trying to get along.

This was a massive swing and a miss from writer and director Vincent Caldoni, and I have absolutely no interest in returning to watch the rest of this snoozefest.

My rating of "Contactee" lands on a mere one out of ten stars. This was just a horrible experience. Do yourself a favor and stay well clear of this.

That was the best part of the movie. Boy, that guy "has some moves", as he said. He needs more moves, that involve moving.

Worst movie I've ever seen. I wish these people would get over themselves and go back to making coffee.

I felt so bad for these poor actors trying so hard to make something out of a nonexistent story, terrible dialogue, a lack of coherent character motivations, bad directing and subpar editing.