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TLDR: (Placed it at the top to save you having to read my waffle). If you've seen E.T and/or Close Encounters of the Third Kind. This film pales in comparison to them.

I'd just like to say that I went into the film with near 'on and off' interest in the UFO/UAP for the past 25+ yrs. I also added a picture of my cinema ticket because we are always screaming for actual evidence of what people have seen in r/UFOs 🤣 That being said...

I was super hyped to go see the film on day one but recent reviews had tempered my expectations some what. Even though there were many more 'positive' reviews' for the film there was also a fair few that weren't so positive.

I can't go into spoilers because I don't want to spoil what little 'excitement' you will get from this film. The plot of the film is 'Ok' but certain parts of the film bored me rigid. The much hyped 'train scene was 'meh'. The ending (last 5 minutes or so) left me stupefied and was so contrived and cliché I couldn't believe what I was seeing/hearing. It won't be spoilers to say the best bits of the film (for me) were already shown in the trailer and were slightly expanded on in the film (the much vaunted stolen evidence). I actually found myself looking more at the monitors in the background than the actors upfront.

There is one moment (hard to go into without limited spoilers) in the film that I can't stop thinking about - the reason why the evidence was stolen in the first place. That I did think was a 'highlight' of the film. Oh and Colman Domingo's (very good actor) character - don't get me started on that.

I really wish I could unload on the film but I can't without going into spoilers and the film ain't even out in some countries till later this week. So I'll end with this summary...

I prefer Spielberg's other Alien contact films.