Thursday, May 29, 2008

The Science!? 13: UFO: Target Earth (1974)

A communication technics scientist (or something) accidentally finds the trail of a crashed (landed?) UFO. Together with a medium (or something), and later some university colleagues, he tries to solve the mystery of its existence (I think).
Um, U:TE is what happens when the director/writer of a cheap UFO movie tries to be clever and philosophical. A barely watchable mess of people reciting pseudo-philosophical nonsense in such a bored tone that even hardened viewers like myself have a hard time of not getting as bored as the characters obviously are. The direction tends towards the non-existent.
The only moments of note are two or three scenes featuring the medium. She can't act any better than the rest of the people on screen, but at least she's trying for moments of sweet, sweet laughable overacting.
Agents Scully and Mulder to the red courtesy phone, please.

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