Really good U.F.O. movies are like hen's teeth. They are talked about but no one actually sees them. Heck even documentaries on the subject raise the art of "beating a dead horse" to, mostly, boring levels. So, when a movie about that most elusive, yet often seen phenomenon comes out I usually am a sucker to bite.
U.F.O. is refreshingly different from the start. It doesn't depend on bombast or over-the-top C.G.I. In fact it takes the opposite approach. Derek, a high-achieving collegiate mathematician becomes obsessed with an airport daylight sighting by a mass of both professionals and lay people. He has his reasons and they are fairly plebeian and in no way over-cooked too lending just the right bit of reality to his otherwise almost "too pushy" quest to find some truth.
Alex Sharp as the brain in overdrive Derek really carries the film. He is ably supported, but wisely modestly, by a love interest (Ella Purnell as Natalie), a hard-boiled academia professor (Gillian Anderson as Dr. Hendricks), and government shill (David Strathaim as Franklin Ahis). The tight cast represents, along with the news media, all of the crucial elements of all U.F.O. sightings from the forties right up to today without pushing into anything too conspiratorial or hard to buy into. This is the stage for a good story and a driven young man whose smarts are up to the mystery. As I watched the movie I kept thinking to myself this parallels a real sighting of several years ago and bonds on a very decent fictional story that fits nicely. When the credits roll the not too thinly disguised real event is acknowledged which I think is a fantastic touch. This is one entertaining fun U.F.O. movie that doesn't insult in any way. I recommend it without reservation for U.F.O. fans (a 7 for us) and guardedly for all others (less perhaps a 5.5 to 6 rating).
UFO
2018
Action / Drama / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller
UFO
2018
Action / Drama / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Plot summary
A college student, who sees a UFO, uses his exceptional math skills to investigate the sighting with his friends while the FBI follows closely behind.
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September 03, 2018 at 11:53 PM
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The Road Less Traveled In U.F.O. Movies....No Aliens or Bombast & It Works.
The positive reviews are accurate
Despite its pedestrian title, UFO is a very good science fiction drama which somehow manages to make mathematics suspenseful by virtue of a literate script, taught direction, and very good, sincere acting on everyone's part.
While not conceived on the grand scale of excellent higher-budget concept-driven productions such as Arrival, Annihilation, Interstellar, Ex Machina, and Predestination, UFO nonetheless joins the ranks of these films in what we can probably at this point call a genuine cycle of intelligent sci-fi, which we've been enjoying 4 the last five years or so.
Good Story
I normally do not watch UFO films because if you see one the rest are pretty much all the same. Something about this one caught my attention. As soon as it started you could tell it wasn't a big budget movie but it also wasn't one of those cheap documentaries on UFO'S. The movie was well done and it keeps your attention throughout the entire movie. I liked that David Strathairn didn't play a bad guy as he does in a lot of his movies. I also don't usually write reviews but I wanted to let whoever reads this an is considering watching this movie based on reviews that is really worth watching. A good story, and a good cast, who could want more in a movie.