Search - Aliens: Complete Truth Collection on DVD

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Lucius | northeast | 09/07/2006

(3 out of 5 stars)

"This 1997 Italian documentary with British narrator is generally interesting, but as a DVD production is bare bones at best. For instance, there are 5 episodes (one per DVD), but no way to determine their order, which is quite annoying given that there is a short recap at the start of each episode but no way to determine which DVD(s) the narrator is refering to. At the end of each episode, the narrator mentions the name of an upcoming episode but try to find it in the 5 titles given. The product code on each DVD is sequential, but seems to have no relation to the viewing order.

To add to the confusion, there is also a good deal of needless repetition among the programs. There are virtually no credits, no acknowledgment of who had been interviewed, no sources for the photographs and video, no documentation whatsoever. Then, most egregious, in the episodes where Roswell, New Mexico rancher Mac Brazel is mentioned, a photograph of Dwight Yokum from the made-for tv-movie "Roswell" is shown. How lame can you get?

One program is essentially devoted to an interview with Whitley Steiber and one with Zacharia Zetchin, but you'd never know it from the titles or scene menus. The other three episodes are essentially interviews with Italians about their ufo experiences. These are dubbed into English, but there seems to be little correspondence with what is being said in Italian and what the narrator translates into English.

As I noted, an mildly interesting, though not revelatory, flawed, bare-bones production.
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