Proximity

So it's present day, our guy works at JPL and is a geek neither he, or anybody else has a smart phone and people exchange numbers by writing them down. A guy who says he writes a blog, gives a business card that has no email address or URL . People go on line but don't exhibit any normal behaviour of modern kids. It's still bearable until the men in black and the stormtroopers arrive and then it descends into a zero budget student movie with an unapologetic hijacking of science by religious twaddle.

A carpenter has become an expert in communications and satellites, built a station and was able to receive an encrypted broadcast and decode it and turn it into an understandable language, while the government couldn't!!!

They fled in the middle of the woods in Costa Rica and suddenly a magic solution to all their problems is shown meters away. A communications and computer expert with an untraceable Internet connection and he has all the connections that can provide them with a boat and a flight to take them from Costa Rica to Canada.

The movie is supposed to be in the present days , the main character is a computer engineer, and still uses a huge size camera from the 1990s or 1980s that doesn't even have a display screen and still uses VCR tapes.

Governmental agent that easily gives an order to shoot unarmed woman, and all his men simply execute the order

And finally aliens navigating the universe searching for jesus.

This movie literally has everything, and that is the problem. I have never seen a movie where 50% is honestly good and the other 50% is film-school horrible.

Overall the acting, special effects, and idea of the movie are good. But, the plot, pacing, and "black-ops government scenes" are so dumb (and out of place) they're comical. I have never edited film in my whole life, but I guarantee I can turn this stinker into a decent story with 30 minutes in the editing room.

This movie has it all! Including (in no particular order): -Alien Abductions -Main Character who is "finding himself" -A train "chase" scene -Cyborgs on motorcycles -A lot of 1990's technology in 2020??? -Social Media bullying -Cable News -A 5,000 mile non-stop Cessna flight from Costa Rica to Canada (Impossible) -Breaking out of Prison -oh, and Jesus (yes, Jesus Christ)

But ... it plays out as a like an average feeling kids movie made by well intended amateurs. The main protagonist teen actor did a great job, as did his female sidekick. The rest of the characters were either badly directed or miscast. There are sections where the film shines, but these sections are quickly superseded by ridiculous film-craft in other parts.

Pedestrian direction and editing (get experienced people to do this), completely un-scary and miscast villains with over-sized suits in some cases (Agents are meant to have money. A fitted suit indicates the agent is well resourced. Thus an over-size suit on an agent is hugely distracting), comedic robots which don't intimidate at all and yes the most comedic men-in-black you could image. I laughed out loud when these guys in sunglasses strolled down the hall. Why put comedy into a serious scene?

The scene near the end where they escape, it was impossible to figure out what the heck was happening there. There was not enough precedent to the characters powers that we could draw upon to make sense of that scene. You need to make the details of superpowers clear early on, so we can know what to expect. Ie: Why does the glass disappear to the guy with powers, but not disappear to someone else watching? You need to answer this question in the film somewhere, and make it obvious. Otherwise we are looking at a frustratingly confusing film that had so much potential. If some thinking was done on what to include in the film or not, there would've been great improvement.

Hats off to providing a satisfying alien explanation scene.

Sat through this thinking we may have a very rare but decent Sci-Fi film, sadly it wasn't the case. Okay it was a watchable yarn, but that's all it was. The budget was there the CGI and locations were there and everything about this film said quality but apart from some dodgy acting moments something just didn't click or gel. Again, the most important 10 minutes of First Contact dialogue at the end of the film was over shadowed by annoying and unnecessary music making it difficult to hear the dialogue...Why do movie producers insist on doing that these days!....Dialogue or music not both and certainly not at the same time!