First up today was Beacon Point a 2016 science fiction camping movie, with aliens. It's directed by Eric Blue who co-wrote the script with Traci Carroll. A convicted murderer takes 5 people into the woods on a 10 day hike. The murder would have been fired but he got into a fight with his boss and accidentally killed him. He takes the hikers anyway. Ones a young woman who wants to dump her father's ashes at a certain spot, two are brothers who are trying to reconnect, and the last guy is a well off, and well fed, computer guy who's wife just ran off with the Yoga teacher.
They all hike and yak for ages, then a bit of weird stuff happens, then more hiking and yakking. The older brothers gets sick, he dies, then the computer guy gets his head bashed in. The guide rips his own eyes out and the younger brother disappears into the bush. Eventually there's just the young woman left and she dumps off the ashes. She finds a mystery and the movie ends without me ever learning what the hell was happening. The guide partially explains it, but that lack of an ending is just the kind of bullshit I don't care about. Big spaceship on the poster, not in the movie. Another dick move. It's below average for me and the voters at the IMDb have given it a 4.3. There is some nice scenery but it's not enough to elevate my score of 4, and I think I was kind of generous.
Alien Implant is a 2017 movie about a woman getting her own back against the aliens that abducted her. In a cabin, in a remote forest, she connects to a satellite and sends a signal into space. Soon after an alien shows up and she shoots it. She reflects on alien killing in a voice over of her writing in her diary. That all took 23 minutes, then the movie drags on for another 50 minutes. Daniel Falicki is the director and he wrote the script with Warren Croyle. Warren is mostly a producer of documentaries on UFOs and aliens. He's produced 269 of them since 1990 and he's still going. Daniel has directed some features and some UFO documentaries but I've not seen any of them. I probably won't go looking for them after seeing AI. I liked the concept but not the execution so much. It's kind of dull and pokey moving. After the visiting alien Blues Brother arrived it went into snooze overdrive and I had to fight to stay awake. Top that off with a piss poor ending and I wouldn't recommend it.
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