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Proximity (2020)
Visually very good but the story lacks any sensibility
First off it's not a horrible film by any means and your kids will probably really enjoy it. Visually it's a really good watch but unfortunately that is where the positives end, the story starts off fairly well with introducing characters and and such.
It is around half way through when it takes a downward turn, the writer/director decided to try and wedge in a budget version of agent smith from the matrix and what look like a few unused extras costumes from the original Star Wars production. The story is effectively about a guy who gets abducted and releases a video of it which most of the media debunk as fake so he reaches out on the internet to find people with similar experiences, finds a pretty girl then they get taken by a shady government organisation which obviously they escape from, they find another guy who has computer "skills" to look for a long lost abductee who they find and go to whilst being followed by previously mentioned government organisation, a few other none important things happen then they all sit around a literal kitchen table with the aliens and what I can only describe is a very early prototype of a universal translator from star trek. They have a lovely little chat about them trying to find out the origin of the universe, which ends up with Jesus Christ being the answer to the question they have been waiting to ask humans for a long time. And somewhere in there the guy and girl fall in love and live happily ever after but to be honest it's not really relevant as there isn't really any shown development of this relationship or any real character development to speak of.
Oh yeah and they guy got some new super abilities which are used a couple of times and also make absolute no sense.
So Urm yeah.....enjoy