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Yikes

Unicorn Insurance | Chicago, IL USA | 08/05/2010

(3 out of 5 stars)

"This one absolutely does not earn five stars. Here's why:

Its attempts to portray itself as a serious documentary left me scratching my head. While it includes interviews from well-known and respected UFO investigators, self-proclaimed abductees, and military personnel, the film is pieced together in a way that seems at best amateurish.

The reenactments are the high point of the filmmakers' additions to the documentary. But it doesn't take an expert to notice the interviews seem to be spliced together in ways that make little sense; choppy cuts from one topic to another draw the audience's attention to the inconsistent sound levels in a way that's distracting (sometimes the film's soundtrack drowns out the narration, and sometimes it stops abruptly in the middle of an interview, etc).

If your film is loaded with explosive information to which you feel the public should have access, don't just count on the interviews to tell the story. You have to organize the film in a coherent way, and your input, which should outline and organize the reasons you're creating the film, needs to be at least comprehensible to a wide range of audiences. I could barely understand the female narrator as she obviously read from cue cards or a teleprompter between sections, if they could be so called.

I believe the information from the interviews was very interesting. I'm always thrilled to hear new credible theories and information from the UFO community. However, I do NOT think that the filmmakers did the best job they could to make a clear, organized documentary. In the end, the production value detracts from our experience, and ultimately, the persuasive and fascinating information it presents.

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