Let me quote the one review I found: "thank the Great people at "Uncork'd Entertainment" for sending me this screener to share my review with you." Right below there is a place where you agree of disagree (with the 8 star review). It seems that we, except from the person who posted the quoted sentence, pushed the disagree botton. I'll pretend this movie was not called First Contact, heck even I had a contact, not recently but when I was 16, almost 61 years ago. There were the original Foo Fighter (not the awesome group, I'm an old rocker) but the ones that showed up during WWII, that Military pilots agreed to having seeing them. Heck, Columbus reported lights in the sky in his journals, while in the waters of what is now Puerto Rico. Then the boyfriend of girl taking shower, eyes turned strange the morning after something in the sky. Sorry have to go laugh some more. I gave it an extra point for making me laugh.
4 Reviews
Overshadowing music and sound effects
rabyrdbarb13 January 2024
Warning: Spoilers
Background music too loud and very annoying! Hard to hear vocal because of background music and sound effects. Actually takes away from the actors performance. I'm trying to finish this movie but I honestly can't stand the music. The actual movie is pretty good but I am getting a terrible headache and constantly trying to adjust the volume. I had to turn on the closed caption because I couldn't understand and hear the actors lines.
I turned the sound completely OFF and I am watching it by closed caption. Not a bad movie. Not 1st rate but OK. Word to the producer... acclaimed producers do not over power the production with constant music. Your movie was pretty good aside from the music.
I turned the sound completely OFF and I am watching it by closed caption. Not a bad movie. Not 1st rate but OK. Word to the producer... acclaimed producers do not over power the production with constant music. Your movie was pretty good aside from the music.
A watchable if somewhat underwhelming sci-fi-laced creature feature
kannibalcorpsegrinder7 June 2023
Following a series of alien sightings, a woman heads out to her remote farmhouse home to look into her father's research with her estranged brother about what he was studying, and when they realize that some friends of theirs are potentially corrupted by an alien race have to stop him from killing.
This here was a decidedly decent enough if slightly flawed effort. Amongst the better features here is the films' straightforward attempt at being a creature feature which is pretty much relegated to the second half of the film. Employing a heavy body-horror aspect that showcases a character slowly being turned from a regular person into a deformed alien creature slowly over the course of the film serves this one quite well as there's a lot of fun to be had with the slow-burn nature of his change into this type of creature. The practical effects-work used here is also quite effective, helped along by the use of the creatures' appearances in the second half as the concurrent discoveries about the existence of the alien race and their plan to stop the impending war about to happen that gives it all a rather fun series of connections that are rather nice to see play. That said, there are a few flaws within this one that bring it down. The main detriment of the film is a wholly overcomplicated and confusing storyline that has the central setup of a workable genre effort but crams way too much into it for its own good. The idea of the strange device harboring a means of stopping an impending alien invasion that's being recorded around the world and their quest to solve it is a fine enough idea but it's wasted on a series of draining sequences filled with overly-complicated measures trying to get it to work that there's a lot of issues brought up with how all over the place it is. Other setups here, including the alien's presence on Earth and the origins of the invasion around the planet, are just as awkward which leaves everything quite complicated and difficult to follow. The other factor with this one is a rather sluggish and dragged-out pacing that tends to drag the film to a halt during the middle with its lack of action. A large part of the film's middle section is the rather pedestrian investigation angle that looks into the strange encounters but that occurs so slowly as these scenes are done in conjunction with the sibling relationship being strained and mended the entire time. While there are scenes with the one character doing the changeover during this time, it's not enough to offset the lack of action this whole thing brings about a dragged-down tempo where not a lot happens to keep the viewer invested in what's going on. The other issue here is that there's not a whole lot of genuine genre feel throughout here, with the sci-fi heavy nature of a lot of the scenes here that carries more of a sci-fi bent which might not be that enjoyable for some but overall isn't as big a deal as the other factors.
Rated Unrated/R: Violence and Graphic Language.
This here was a decidedly decent enough if slightly flawed effort. Amongst the better features here is the films' straightforward attempt at being a creature feature which is pretty much relegated to the second half of the film. Employing a heavy body-horror aspect that showcases a character slowly being turned from a regular person into a deformed alien creature slowly over the course of the film serves this one quite well as there's a lot of fun to be had with the slow-burn nature of his change into this type of creature. The practical effects-work used here is also quite effective, helped along by the use of the creatures' appearances in the second half as the concurrent discoveries about the existence of the alien race and their plan to stop the impending war about to happen that gives it all a rather fun series of connections that are rather nice to see play. That said, there are a few flaws within this one that bring it down. The main detriment of the film is a wholly overcomplicated and confusing storyline that has the central setup of a workable genre effort but crams way too much into it for its own good. The idea of the strange device harboring a means of stopping an impending alien invasion that's being recorded around the world and their quest to solve it is a fine enough idea but it's wasted on a series of draining sequences filled with overly-complicated measures trying to get it to work that there's a lot of issues brought up with how all over the place it is. Other setups here, including the alien's presence on Earth and the origins of the invasion around the planet, are just as awkward which leaves everything quite complicated and difficult to follow. The other factor with this one is a rather sluggish and dragged-out pacing that tends to drag the film to a halt during the middle with its lack of action. A large part of the film's middle section is the rather pedestrian investigation angle that looks into the strange encounters but that occurs so slowly as these scenes are done in conjunction with the sibling relationship being strained and mended the entire time. While there are scenes with the one character doing the changeover during this time, it's not enough to offset the lack of action this whole thing brings about a dragged-down tempo where not a lot happens to keep the viewer invested in what's going on. The other issue here is that there's not a whole lot of genuine genre feel throughout here, with the sci-fi heavy nature of a lot of the scenes here that carries more of a sci-fi bent which might not be that enjoyable for some but overall isn't as big a deal as the other factors.
Rated Unrated/R: Violence and Graphic Language.
Really good Film
rothrules695 June 2023
Kenny's Movie Review
"First Contact" (2023)
Available on Digital and DVD Tomorrow 6/6/23
I'd like to thank the Great people at "Uncork'd Entertainment" for sending me this screener to share my review with you
Two estranged siblings go to their late scientist father's farmhouse to make sense of his incomplete work. They soon discover an evil entity, buried in time and space for millions of years, has been released and begun wreaking havoc.
The movie stars Anna Shields and James Liddell, they play Casey and Dan Bradach and they do a great job together in this Bruce Wemple directed film (they have both worked with him before and they both have terrific chemistry)
The movie starts slow but really starts to move when the brother and sister start to discover what their father had been working on. This is really a good looking film and well written story and really in the 2nd act the story picks up.
The director Bruce Wemple does a terrific job by making the experience bigger then the screen and the effects are spot on and I can't say more about the 2 lead actors especially Anna Shields. In my opinion this feels like a longer "X-Files" episode
4 Whoppers out of 5 Whoppers 🍔🍔🍔🍔
Really good film
I'd like the Great people at "Uncork'd Entertainment" for allowing me to screen this film.
"First Contact" (2023)
Available on Digital and DVD Tomorrow 6/6/23
I'd like to thank the Great people at "Uncork'd Entertainment" for sending me this screener to share my review with you
Two estranged siblings go to their late scientist father's farmhouse to make sense of his incomplete work. They soon discover an evil entity, buried in time and space for millions of years, has been released and begun wreaking havoc.
The movie stars Anna Shields and James Liddell, they play Casey and Dan Bradach and they do a great job together in this Bruce Wemple directed film (they have both worked with him before and they both have terrific chemistry)
The movie starts slow but really starts to move when the brother and sister start to discover what their father had been working on. This is really a good looking film and well written story and really in the 2nd act the story picks up.
The director Bruce Wemple does a terrific job by making the experience bigger then the screen and the effects are spot on and I can't say more about the 2 lead actors especially Anna Shields. In my opinion this feels like a longer "X-Files" episode
4 Whoppers out of 5 Whoppers 🍔🍔🍔🍔
Really good film
I'd like the Great people at "Uncork'd Entertainment" for allowing me to screen this film.
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