An original project that Wyatt cowrote with his wife Erica Beeney The Battle of Shaker Heights in addition to directing, Captive State picks up ten years after extraterrestrials first took hold of our world. Also, don't be fooled by the poster - it has no bearing on the film at all! This isn't the first sci-fi offering from the English filmmaker, who made his name ten years ago on the prison breakout thriller The Escapist. Alien Overlords is filmed in a faux documentary format following a conspiracy theorist who claims to have evidence of government conspiracies and the infamous men in black. Let me start right off the bat saying that it's not and it's one of the most deceptive movie covers I've seen in months. I thought it was well done, acting was convincing enough to start to put the seeds of truth in your head and then you feel them grow. Looking at the cover of Alien Overlords you'd likely make some assumptions right? This is my first review ever, never felt the need to bother with it, but i just had to get it off my chest. Judging by the synopsis and trailer, Captive State functions as a political allegory by way of small-scale alien invasion thriller.
Is he a crazy old man or is there something to his claims? As a huge fan of documentaries, this had me thinking, with the great acting from the main character you really start to believe what he is saying until a third character then starts to make you think again. As it stands, the film will now serve as counter-programming to Tim Burton and Disney's live-action when it opens in the U. It's the sort of thing someone would make that wanted to underhandedly ridicule conspiracy movies. The rants and conspiracies that you will hear are generally the classics from chemtrails to the government poisoning the water for population control, all head scratchingly silly stuff that scarily countless people believe. I never believed in that until I started watching this,. After Spencer passes on, Tom is compelled to reveal to the world a dire warning to mankind of the pending danger from an elite organization that rules every aspect of Human Activity. Watch the film's teaser trailer in the space below.
Saved from a 1 star by the final 30 minutes which manages to bring some mystery and tension to it but it's too little and too late and the twist at the end was seen coming halfway through. It follows the wacky conspiracy theory spouting man around as he begins to question everything and everyone around him. The citizens of Chicago embrace their alien overlords in the teaser trailer for Rupert Wyatt's. I usually like these conspiracy films, but the way it was shot and the charecters were real flimsy and I found myself hating the main charecter. You know the saying, that watching motion pictures make you literally dumb? Since then, however, some humans have begun cooperating with the aliens, while others remain in open rebellion. The didn't even touch on the movie's sci-fi elements, which goes to show just how much the film is trying to feel like a grounded dramatic thriller its alien occupants aside. Focus Features originally had Captive State set to hit theaters last month, before it was pushed back to March 2019.
Get past the first 10 minutes and maybe you will thinking to yourself as Mulder once did 'I want to believe. The Good: Couple of interesting ideas Nice monologue The Bad: Ultimately about themes that people in real life take too seriously Hardly engaging stuff Documentarian get's really annoying A sort of 'found footage' style film - although it presents itself as a re-enactment of actual events instead of being found footage, it is all still filmed through a hand held camera. Like many people, Tom Keating thought that those things were the product of delusional minds and crackpots and was a skeptic himself until he met Spencer, a real Man in Black who was an elite insider who reveals on his death bed the horrifying truth to the Alien Agenda. Like many people, Tom Keating thought that those things were the product of delusional minds and crackpots and was a skeptic himself until he met Spencer, a real Man in Black who was an elite insider who reveals on his death bed the horrifying truth to the Alien Agenda. If word of mouth ends up being on the movie's side, then Captive State may yet become something of a cult success. I see the appeal of this, for those who adore real documentaries about similar themes and those who enjoy the X-files.
I have started watching this movie 3 times for the first 5 minutes, then turned it off, the 4th time, I stuck with it, I am glad I did, for a faux documentary style which I normally hate, this turned out to be one of the better and convincing faux I have seen in a good while. The acting actually isn't so bad but it's just really slow for the most part as we are largely just watching someone tell a story about what is going on in their life with regard to the conspiracy he is trying to expose rather than watching the events unfold ourselves. . Wyatt's genre films typically have more substance than their B-movie premises might suggest and his latest appears to be no exception, in that regard. Watched about 15 minutes before swearing and turning it off. After Spencer passes on, Tom is compelled to reveal to the world a dire warning to mankind of the pending danger from an elite organization that rules every aspect of Human Activity. Sander is joined here by John Goodman who previously appeared in Wyatt's crime drama-thriller The Gambler and 's Vera Farmiga, as well as Jonathan Majors Hostiles , Madeline Brewer The Handmaid's Tale and Colson Baker aka.
Related: The Captive State cast is led by Moonlight actor Ashton Sanders, who also appeared opposite Denzel Washington in earlier this summer. . . . . .
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