First Light

I thought this was a well made film with good characters. Definitely not your usual teeny bopper garbage (that always seem to do really well). Whilst this may have been aimed at a teenage audience based on it's main characters, to me it had a more grown up feel. The reviews suggest this film is a bit Marmite, you either love it or hate it. I loved it and would recommend.

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.

There are lights in the sky. Cal (Saïd Taghmaoui) is following the UFOs. Teenagers are having a party in the woods. Alex Lainey (Stefanie Scott) gets affected by the lights and develops superpowers. Sean (Théodore Pellerin) has a crush on her and gives her a ride.

This reminds me of Chronicle in that it's a lower budget sci-fi indie trying to punch above its weight with some over-the-counter special effects. The story is basic but has potential. I actually found the brothers very intriguing initially. This should be a road trip movie with Alex and the brothers. It definitely needs a car chase to spice up the action. They already split up a truck. I don't think it's asking too much to crash one or two more.

Cal is the bigger issue. He's the source of a couple of problems. He's really only good for the expositions but maybe it would be better for the kids to figure things out themselves. Cal's first problem is his initial encounter with Alex. Why doesn't his radiation meter go off? He picks up a girl in her underwear and drops her off at a truck stop. What's wrong with him? Shouldn't he call the police? I'd just as well eliminate Cal from the story. It would be simpler. This sci-fi indie has lots of potential and achieves about half of it.

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.