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Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

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After an encounter with a UFO, a man becomes drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.

CertificatePG

Duration129 mins

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  • Saffron, 13
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Review by Saffron, 13

2 stars

05 Jun 2014

I found Close Encounters of the Third Kind - (sci-fi), Directed by Steven Spielberg - (E T), to be quite confusing because of the rather slow start. Tension tries to build as humans in America begin to experience alien activity centered by a tall, looming rock in the middle of a desert. 2 familys; a woman with her toddler, and a man, his wife and children - are subjected to visions of this particular rock - (along with others around America), and are drawn to it, but at the same time, the man and his wife are drawn apart as she is persistent on the idea that he is imagining sightings of UFO's. But there is no turning back when the woman's child is abducted.

The reason that I would not particularly recommend this film is because, although it was interesting to find out the ending, the storyline was not really believable and hard to understand. Also the characters didn't entirely fit together or make any sense. The ending was additionally confusing and in my opinion, and could have been finished better.

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