Film denies viewer natural scepticism

Running time: 96 minutes
Type of film: Science-fiction
Age restriction: Adult only film
Reviewed by Prof Joel  White
The makers of this film almost succeed in a major act of duplicity. And considering the subject matter of the film, I feel there are two such acts.
On the other hand, I would accept the excuse: “But isn’t that what movies are all about?”
Yes, there can be no doubt that ruling deception out of movie-making would be the death-knell of the industry.
In an effort to force this down the throat of its major potential audience — the Americans — the setting is of this film is given as the one state, Alaska, of which the inhabitants of the other forty nine know absolutely nothing. Even as to its location.
Impossible to hide — as much as the makers of the film might have wished — the film was actually made in Bulgaria, a country which, to say the least, is not famed for its film-making.
Leaping over the many hurdles in its path — namely the absence of any scientifically-accepted evidence — the film asks its audience to accept, as a fact, that aliens from other worlds live, in their millions, among us on earth.
Having said that, I’ll add that the film’s makers went to great lengths to deny the viewer his natural scepticism.
The highly effective method they have chosen to do this — and the first time I have ever seen this done on film — is to present to us the “real people” to whom these incidents occurred, as well as the “movie actors” portraying them.
And — even further — there are characters within the film who vehemently exhibit the very scepticism the film — maker is willing to tackle.
Making the claim that the film’s plot represents an actual case study, the audience is clearly informed of the four ways these other-world aliens have chosen to fulfil their ultimate goal, terminating with the physical abduction of millions of earth-dwellers, causing me — a psychologist extra-terrestrials are inviting; their willingness to introduce into their own world the notably capricious homo sapiens. 
Elias Koteas has the role of the scientist whose scepticism mirrors that of the paying audience, which includes that of your Herald reviewer.