Positives:
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Negatives:
1. Dumbed down dialogue. No attempt to be even reasonably factually accurate. Usual cheap movie filler of overhead drone views of, well, not much.
2. A really cheap production aimed primarily to be understandable/relatable to middle school dropouts.
3. First cheap was a close up view of a compass swinging erratically as director holds magnet just offscreen. Suppose to represent alien weirdness (I suppose.) Government peoples are wearing cheap WWII type surplus store gas masks.
4. Usual moving lights in the upper atmosphere or beyond (not clear). Guy in pickup is able to track aliens w/hand held high school lab EM meter while the government w/all their high tech can't.
5. Usual communication to human by making them semi-conscious zombie like; walking for no reason down the middle of a remote highway. Scene done before; aliens must not be very intelligent to need that hook.
6. Usual human infected by aliens gives us nosebleeds (Why? Who knows.), and can levitate things & toss cars around, which is also a done before movie alien hook. How or why she acquires such skills - minor point.
7. Usual flashing house lights. Usual strange bird flocking behavior. Usual government conspiracy.
8. Worst science part! The aliens which are little balls of light arrive because we sent them a light message. Unfortunately the authors forgot that the message would take at least a few thousand, up to millions of, years to travel. Then the alien light beings would have to understand and take the same amount of time to Earth. Forget about the energy & space obstacle for them to travel. We determine that aliens have been around since the Big Bang, a script hook is not even worthy of being called dumb.
Review of At First Light
