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This docu-series is very well done, light-years ahead of most UFO documentaries. It is well thought-out, has interviews with high-level government officials, and is done in a quality that is unheard of for this subject matter.

The one criticism that I would give is that it seems to focus too much on the trials and tribulations of the journalists and whistle-blowers. This is really fine, and an important part of the story, but just one episode would have been enough.

If you at all followed this story on the news and watched Joe Rogan's podcast, like many of us have already have, it's really just a more succinct telling of what you already knew from the people you've already seen except for one new cool footage of a "jellyfish UFO".

My personal preference would have been to use the last two episodes to meticulously walk through the most compelling video footage, explain the supporting opinions and testimony on them, explain why the footage and testimony are credible and then end the series with a debate between credible whistle-blowers, scientists, etc... on are these:

• Aliens?

• Hidden US tech, if so, was it Alien derived?

• Adversary tech, if so, was it Alien derived?

• Inter-dimensional tech?

• Some kind of time-bending tech for humans in the future?

• etc...

We all saw the videos, we all saw at least some of the whistle-blower testimony, and we're all sure that it's something, we just don't know what they are. A systemic walkthrough of all the potentials in detail with the pros and cons of each would have been very compelling.

First the film is in French, so if you speak french or don't mind reading subtitles it's a solid choice.

It's kind of a Jason Bourne / Extraction type film, but done in a more realistic manner. Magazines aren't always magically full, the bad guys don't die from one shot while the good guys get shot 5 times and keep fighting, and while the hero is heroic, he's not completely impervious to the bad guys like a lot of action movies portray heroes.

Alban Lenoir does a great job being a badass and doesn't ruin the movie trying to look cool or have some stupid catch phrase that makes it cheesy. I definitely would watch another movie where he's the hero.

The action is really great, the sets are good, and you can stay immersed in the story pretty easily. The story is good and has a couple twists, but there's a couple of predictable times as well which was a little disappointing.

The fight scenes and shootouts are really good, the close quarter fighting is stellar but some of the long range shooting is not as good as it could have been. Hero not having enough cover, the missed shots causing little explosions, etc...

Overall a really solid action movie that won't disappoint you, If it were in English (I don't mean dubbed), I think more people would be talking about it.