UFO

UFO (2018)

• Director: Ryan Eslinger
• Based on the book: no
• Cast: Alex Sharp, Gillian Anderson, David Strathairn, Ella Purnell, Benjamin Beatty
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Gillian Anderson – The X Files, The Fall, Robot Overlords, Great Expectations, Last King of Scotland, Tristram Shandy
• David Strathairn – American Pastoral, Hotel Marigold 2, The Tempest, Good Night and Good Luck, The Sopranos, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, LA Confidential, Doris Claiborne, A League of Their Own, Silkwood
• Ella Purnell – Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Never Let Me Go
• Benjamin Beatty- Hail Caesar!

• Why? Sci fi, Gillian Anderson
• Seen:  22 March 2020      

       …unless they come to us first.

       And arrive at the Cincinnati airport.

       It’s explained away as a drone but Derek (Sharp) is a geeky math genius and he figures out that it has to be a UFO. The FBI don’t like that.

       Derek, though he is her most argumentative and disruptive student, turns to his math professor Hendricks (Anderson), also a genius, for help. They know the UFO is coming back soon and time is running out.

       For a slow-moving, low-key film with a lot of math, it’s quite exciting. The characters are engaging and well-played and the existential questions are valid.

       Are we alone in the universe? We can’t possibly be.

      

4½ * of 5