Crystal's Shadow

I have just joined IMDb for the sole purpose of preventing anyone else from seeing this shambolic mess of a film. It's plot is holier than Passion of the Christ, and watching it feels much like Jesus himself must have. It introduces an astounding number of premises, and elaborates none of them, instead concluding with an ill-attempted philosophical justification of its own drunken story board. The lead actress is good enough, as is the lead actor. William Davis (x files) is, however, the only real draw. The accents (ostensibly Texan) are strained and variable, the lead female oscillating between Generic Southern and Generic Germanic. The rest of the cast is universally appalling, and manage to sink deeper an already sinking ship. The 'Indian' shaman and Russian investigator are so bad that at times the film appears almost comic - more of the 'laughing at' kind than the 'laughing with'. Nothing makes sense, there is no cohesive storyline, the editing sees overly long and/or completely unnecessary scenes that do nothing to develop the plot interspersed with action of dubious believability. This film has achieved a rare trajectory of starting off with reasonable promise, and descending exponentially into a complete farce.

At times frightening, at times intriguing, at other times comic, and generally very very bad.

I think overall the film talks about interesting stuff, mainly directed to the theorist mates.

All the stuff related to HAARP is interesting, the radio show host has a good solid performance and bringing the American AB is a plus and could probably enjoy more film time with these scenes.

They could have cut out some moments,the blonde Russian is useless for the story and the government guy with the hat and funny voice, his accent is terrible, don't know why they have him.

The redneck has some good moments and the xfiles joke is stupendous, some of his expressions and jokes are priceless. Overall is enjoyable, the effects are cool and had a good laugh.

This umm this.. mind puzzle will leave you wondering if you've been abducted. because you will experience lost time that you'll never get back. I'd rather have a brain freeze than watch this crap again.

No idea what was going on for most of the movie. Good floatie scene though

Fun little alien abduction b-movie that will be more appreciated by X-philes, like I'm certain the director is. Full of subtle and not so subtle references and similar plotlines, not to mention the Cigarette Smoking Man, William B. Davis himself in the exact opposite role of a skeptical man that talks about conspiracies and laughs at the thought of hidden government bases in Alaska (Fight the Future anyone?).

Apart from the continuous X-Files referencing, the movie is a bit all over the place in terms of plot, mixing in clumsy ways alien abduction, Indian mythology and plenty of philosophizing over the paranormal. Towards the end things take a more surreal and so-bad-it's-good direction, but the movie did not lose its charm, at least in my case and it remained entertaining till the end. However, I feel that it is doubtful if viewers that are not familiar with the X-Files will appreciate it much.