The film from me gets five stars that I have yet found any reason to take one away! The film is shot beautifully for one and there's great depth to every scene throughout the entire film. Also, I'm not sure if there were any lines in the film at all besides a song from perhaps the fifties which plays a couple times and I'm just realizing that now. The location was just as far away and close to home as you will ever get as an American and while just about the entire film deals with a single "Alien encounter vs the others happening in town, it was delightfully intriguing to be taken too for an experience that without argument became more and more realistic while intriguing how that with a reality being altered by an e.t./ufo experience was reality ever much different before and or after such an event does the world even notice or for need to, we will never quite know. Still the film is a must see. I'd say because of the writing, directing and producing. The best way to describe it is that it was natural. I love the end. So thoughtful. A delight. The surprise. In creativity. Why? Because I believe, even more now than before, not only in the existence of e.t.s and craft, but now moreso that there's the chance of my parents and the people of there generation of actual being alien as in that there lives must have been altered, sometime in their lives, if not them then everyone else, including the person writing these words, whether or however knowing it or not, but that what's most important is the experience. But now I believe that They" really are out there. I'm pretty sure that I'll forget it though, yes. Still this film was a vision fulfilled and like no other film I've ever seen whether one has to do with aliens or not. Watching it alone wasn't wasted time either as it was most intriguing. I'd like to watch it with other people to see their reactions because this film is filled and charged with all kinds of intensity, question, danger, surprise and horrible outcomes that all do somehow fit together and like puzzle pieces or a machine that from beginning to the end the entire film was unexpected. I kept in rewatching scenes, rewinding the film on my phone, I probably watched it two or three times. But as a film altogether as a vision, this is a work of art and whoever made and helped make it had challenged themselves as an artist and challenged themselves as a person to help people only to have created an unforgettable story and one without any words at all.
High Five stars from me for sure and a cult classic and fir sensory perceptions that I needed my awareness with this subject raised. And I should go on about this film that I could but my phone's about to die. It's like the film invented feet for walking in someone else's shoes. This was a film the siskel and Ebert would have both given two thumbs up I think because as one most controversial subjects to ever reference, this film didn't rub any shoulders the wrong way, no matter what you believe or how you feel and its a movie to make the dog jump twice before leaving the room that the cat is still watching. Love it. The entire film, I would have never thought possible. What a work of art. This is truly what film is for. And it's one of those movies you could watch close to 100 times so, "Thank You