Tonight I watch Midnight Special for the second time and found myself more engrossed in the movie than the first timw. It is an a effective Sci-Fi that is easy to follow, well edited and told efficiently.
All the actors played their characters well, although you can feel that it was low budget movie.
The movie at its core is a story about parenthood and the loss of one's young child, that is wrapped in a sci-fi narrative. And the little that we get to see in terms of the science-fiction aspect was really well executed.
I particularly enjoyed the sequences involving visions of the parallel universe.
I did wish Jeff Nicols had explored a bit more on that world but I appreciate how the minimal storytelling keeps the element of suspense and mystery at full tilt.
All in all I really enjoy this movie, and it is like Close Encounters of the Third Kind meets D. A. R. Y. L.
All the actors played their characters well, although you can feel that it was low budget movie.
The movie at its core is a story about parenthood and the loss of one's young child, that is wrapped in a sci-fi narrative. And the little that we get to see in terms of the science-fiction aspect was really well executed.
I particularly enjoyed the sequences involving visions of the parallel universe.
I did wish Jeff Nicols had explored a bit more on that world but I appreciate how the minimal storytelling keeps the element of suspense and mystery at full tilt.
All in all I really enjoy this movie, and it is like Close Encounters of the Third Kind meets D. A. R. Y. L.