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Rating:  -
This DVD could use a few more features, like language options and widescreen for starters. So expect just a basic DVD when you get it.
Personally I don't believe in aliens but it's fun to speculate. I think what's difficult to believe is that they travel millions and millions of miles safely and then just lose control and crash on Earth. Maybe the cruise control was on and they just dozed off.
BUT let's look at the story of Roswell; one that has been revisted many times. Our hero is Major Jesse Marcel (Kyle Maclachlan) who is asked to investigate some sort of crashed aerial vehicle at the ranch of Mac Brasel (country star Dwight Yoakum - actually better than I would have imagined).
Possibly due to budget constraints, the film has the look of a made-for-TV movie and maybe that was the intended target. However, it does have a nice feel of the "coverup" and "misdirection" as we watch an ailing Marcel flashback and review the events of 1947 with his former associates and family. Now, nobody doubts that the real Major Jesse Marcel would not know a weather balloon, so obviously something was afoot. The question is "what?". Evidently something was amiss and from the obscurity the legend has only grown.
There are some beautiful airplanes in the film, including a pristine Boeing B-29 bomber and a beautiful Northrup P-61 "Black Widow" (only partially seen). For those who don't know, the P-61 was a night fighter, radar-equipped, similar in concept to the high-performance Lockheed P-38 "Lightning". It also shot down some German V-1 buzz bombs (the crude but terrifying cruise missiles of their day).
The cast is pretty good with Martin Sheen as "Townsend", the official gov't disinformation specialist. Others include Xander Berkeley as the cagey gov't intelligence liason. There are a host of others you'll recognize from several films. Definitely an all-star cast.
This film is an overview of the events and doesn't examine them critically, but presents the rumors and speculations as generally associated with the infamous incident. For that, it's good entertainment and halfway decent science fiction.
I'd give it 3.5 stars but there's no 1/2 rating so it gets 4 stars. Don't expect your questions to be resolved but you'll have fun with the film. Someday it would be fun to take a trip to Roswell, New Mexico and see all the sights. Until then, here's the DVD.
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This Film Has Nothing to Do with The Popular Cult Teenage Science Fiction Television Series Drama of The Same Name At All What So Ever!!!
This Was A Big Budget 1994 Made For Cable Television Movie.
And
This is a very very Serious Fact-Based Docudrama About The Legendary 1947 U.F.O. crash and The Supposedly True Account of an Actual Real Crashed Alien Space-Ship.
This Movie Star's
Kyle MacLachlan
Martin Sheen
Dwight Yoakam
Xander Berkeley
Kim Greist
And Charles Martin Smith.
Also
This Movie Was Directed By Jeremy Paul Kagan.
To See Many Different Opinions of This Movie Read The Reviews Below.
Thank You For Reading This Review.
Rating:  -
The Roswell story has been an interesting piece of "urban legend" for some time now. Did our government conspire to cover up the supposed crash landing of an alien spaceship? We'll never really know the truth, I'm sure. ROSWELL is an intriguing movie, although it lacks any real suspense and since we know how it ends, one is left with what is basically a character study of Jesse, the soldier who was humiliated and promoted in order to keep his mouth shut. Kyle MacLachlan, one of our most underrated actors, gives a solid, sturdy performance, even though his makeup conjures up images of Brad Dourif. Martin Sheen's enigmatic character makes an appearance at the end of the film, but we never know who he is. Dwight Yoakam does well as the farmer who first discovers the wreckage. However, only MacLachlan's character is developed fully enough to care about. A clean, clinical and provocative movie; just not a great one.
Rating: -
As I indicated in my review of debunker Karl Pflock's Roswell book, there is an erroneous belief that if you can disprove the Roswell Incident, you have automatically debunked all UFO reports. How ridiculous.
This is the case they feel they HAVE to crush in order to get a handle on disempowering the pro-UFO/Alien lobby. When you watch this movie, you will understand why.
Roswell is a very well made movie, with an excellent cast, which features some powerful performances by Kyle Mac and Dwight Yoakam above all.
The UFO debunkers will hate it because it tells the story of an actual Alien incident including the recovery of at least one semi-telepathic crash survivor.
Some contemporary UFO purists will have a problem because of the artistic license taken and the fact that it seems like Marcel was stuck between a rock and a hard place, having wanted to release the true account of the crash - whereas now some people believe that Marcel was told to release an exaggerated 'crashed disk' report by Blanchard, which was then pulled/denied in true disinformation style.
Whatever the theorizing, this movie tells a fairly traditional Roswell story, which includes all of the main elements of the discovery and cover-up. If anything, as another reviewer said, a worst case scenario.
The Project Mogul balloon that debunkers keep whining about, DID have a roughly disk-shaped instrument gondola suspended way beneath it, but nobody in their right mind could EVER mistake it for a craft that was capable of independent flight, even if it had become totally separated from the mother balloon, which seems not to have been the case, per their own debunking mythology.
This movie has a feel about it that just gets under your skin, and for many reasons, flaws and artistic license or not, it flows more like a documentary of Marcel's life than a piece of pure fiction. When you compare the flow and feel of this movie with the infantile ramblings of debunkers such as the barely literate Kal K. Korff (yeah, KKK), you cannot help but feel that the movie is the closest thing we might ever know to the Truth.
The idea that the whole Incident was a piece of disinformation, to fool the Russians or whatever, falls apart instantly for 10,000 reasons and is perhaps the most ludicrous suggestion of all.
No, something unusual came down in Roswell, and until the Government comes clean, and stops fabricating seemingly deliberately absurd 'explanations', the story told in this movie may be considered a very reasonable possible scenario.
Very highly recommended.
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Though I couldn't care less whether intelligent alien life exists or not (IMHO it probably doesn't, and if it does it would bear many of the same hideous flaws that any "intelligent" life has), this movie is one of thee best UFO flicks I have ever seen. Whether you like good sci-fi stories, UFO mythology, or if UFO-ology is basically your religion (sigh), this is a great movie based on the classic UFO crash myth near Roswell, New Mexico in 1947. Wonderfully filmed, with a good solid script and fine acting. The characters (even the minor ones) are lifelike and appear to be given a great deal of thought. If you want to see one of the best, earliest foundations for the 20th century take on alien life (complete with a typically awful, thankfully short, scene depicting the supposed vastly superior minds of alien life over our own), then this is it. Of course, as this movie shows, it merely scratches the surface of just how far some people take the whole UFO thing and just how much story potential there is within UFO-ology. If you want to be really disturbed by something however, consider the claim at the beginning of this movie that the story is "...based on events that happened near Roswell, New Mexico"!
Kyle Maclachlan (who stared in the original Dune, also appeared in Twin Peaks) does a real nice job here in the lead. A fine actor with a good talent for playing intelligent, inquisitive, determined characters (qualities we could all look for more here among humanity instead of looking towards outer space for them). The movie works well on different levels. Outside of a few weaknesses, the story of the whole Roswell incident itself is fairly brilliant and it's understandable that this movie would turn out pretty good. Yet, this movie also can be used to work the mind as you sit back and think of all the alternative theories possible to the ones given. Many of the alternatives are given right in front of us within the story, sometimes even painfully obviously so. The movie ends on a touching, somewhat sad note as we see further into the isolation, and perhaps self-deception, portrayed so well by Kyle Maclachlan. Perhaps in the long run it can also be seen as a good warning about obsessive-compulsive behaviors, whether one is right or wrong in their views. I think the real question UFO extremists need to ask however is, is this belief trip really necessary? Roswell (1994) helps in thinking about this.
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