The plot: A meteorologist and a cybersecurity expert find themselves at the Center of a movement to expose the government’s cover-up of extraterrestrial secrets.
This movie was a mix-bag.
Pros: Spielberg still has he’s creative touch all the way through of the directions and visuals. Emily Blunt, Josh O’Connor & Colman Domingo all did good in their perspective roles. I did like how it try to tell something original and fresh spin with Allen coming to earth. The dialogue was technically sound. John Willams’s score adds the tension and I enjoy this film more than scary movie.
Cons: The main plot did get weird as it went along. It’s pacing was a bit slow at the beginning. Colin Firth’s Noah wasn’t that much of a threat. It Feels like a rehash of another Allen films. It relies on too much on mystery but not much explaining & there’s plot holes that haven’t been failed.
Genre: Sci-Fi, Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Directed by Steven Spielberg
Produced by Steven Spielberg, Kristie Macosko Krieger
Written by David Koepp
Story by Steven Spielberg
Starring: Emily Blunt, Josh O’Connor, Colin Firth, Eve Hewson & Colman Domingo.
Cinematography: Janusz Kamiński
Edited by Sarah Broshar
Music by John Willams
Production companies: Amblin Entertainment
Distributed by: Universal Pictures
The Casts:
- Emily Blunt as Margaret Fairchild, a Kansas City TV meteorologist and former journalist
- Delaney Cuthbert as young Margaret Fairchild
- Josh O’Connor as Daniel Kellner, a young cybersecurity expert and whistleblower
- Tyler Renaud as young Daniel Kellner
- Colin Firth as Noah Scanlon, the head of the Wardex corporation
- Eve Hewson as Jane Blankenship, a former nun and Daniel’s girlfriend
- Colman Domingo as Hugo Wakefield, a Wardex defector and advocate for disclosure
- Wyatt Russell as Jackson, Margaret’s boyfriend
- Henry Lloyd-Hughes as Casper Boyd, Scanlon’s head-of-security
- Elizabeth Marvel as Sister Maura, a nun
- Hettienne Park as Serena, a Wardex agent
- Tommy Martinez as Dave Santiago
- Gabby Beans as Angela Childs
- Jeremy Shamos as Claypool
- Revon Yousif as Agent Reza
- Elliot Villar as Agent Diaz
- Noah Robbins as Agent Munsey
- Michael Gaston as General Dobbs
Additionally, Lance Archer, Brian Cage, and Chavo Guerrero Jr. cameo as a wrestling referee, the red wrestler and blue wrestler, respectively. Patricia Conolly appears uncredited as Ruth.
I still recommend people to give this movie a shot.
Rating: 2.5 out of 5 Stars
Ryan Balkwill:
Resident film reviewer,
Level Best Art Cafe