Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

Humaira Grant It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Robert J. Maxwell You don't really expect too much in the way of sensitivity or poetry from a television movie. You expect flat lighting, lurid color, and a message that a rhesus monkey could understand.You get all that here. And, as a kind of lagniappe, you get clumsy editing, a confused screenplay, stiff and amateurish acting, and direction that plumbs the abyssal depths of skill. It's really too bad, because the subject is such an important one.And Air Force crew is testing a radar site, flying from their base to a Marine Corps Air Station, when both the on-board radar officer and the Marine Corps base notice three unaccounted-for blips on their screens. Neither Norad nor anyone else has any traffic in the area, so two Marine jets are scrambled and ordered to intercept. The Air Force crew, including pilot David Soul, watch the Phantoms climb into a cloud and disappear. At the time time, the radar anomalies disappear.Glenn Ford is the Air Force colonel in charge of the test but, back at headquarters, he learns that the incident and his airplane have been taken in hand by the Security Intelligence Division or some other secret ops organization.Browned off at his airplane having been confiscated and at being put out of the loop, Ford pushes his investigation and finds that the aircraft is now at a deserted old field and his men are being held prisoner during a "debriefing" by the SID. Ford gets his men released but his career is at an end. The case gets buried.It's really frustrating. The film does not show us events clearly as they happen. It's not until the movie is half over that we learn the Air Force crew had visual contact with the Marine Phantoms. And it's not until still LATER that we discover the strange blips made a right-angle turn and accelerated at once from 500 miles per hour to 5,000 miles per hour. That's bad writing.The pace set by the story is glacial. The SID men all look sinister. There's no question about it. They scowl and smirk and wear Ray-Ban shades. And when one of them shouts at the imprisoned aircraft crew, there is a long pause, with no cut, before a crew member shouts a reply. And that pause is long. Eons come and go. Dynasties rise and fall, while the two men stare at each other and everyone waits for the next shout. That's direction at an amateur level, prompting acting that one would expect from a community college stage somewhere in rural New Jersey. The dialog is repetitious and sometimes without point. Glenn Ford is the most convincing character.I wish I could recommend it because I'm compelled to believe that there really is an attempt by the US government to keep this entire UFO business under wraps. I can only guess at the motives. (1) Preventing a public panic. (2) What military officer wants to admit that there are "things" flying around that we know nothing about and can't defend ourselves against, should they turn out to be hostile. (3) There's nothing to investigate because there is no physical evidence -- none of them ever dropped a faulty landing gear or a toilet Popsicle, so that the disbelievers hold the witnesses in the same contempt, and for the same reason, that engineers feel superior to physicists. (4) Denial, or, in technical terms, "whistling in the dark." Too bad.

oscar-35 A crew of four are sent off on Flight 412 and pick up three mysterious images on their radar. Star: Glen Ford, David Soul.A film supposedly dealing with the UFO phenomena in the prologue. This film could have been much more interesting but the film's ending is lack luster and unsatisfying. This is because of bad script or directing? Who knows. The dramatic build up of the Air Force base, UFOs on radar, and missing Marine interceptors was fascinating. Casting and acting was believable.The over all review of this film was that the script was too bland and needed a 'punch' or colorful finish.

Hitchcoc My issue with this film is that in order to get everything to happen in a couple of days, a lot of believability goes out the window. First of all these are military men. They are Air Force. For them to be broken in a 24 hour span without any torture or brainwashing is ridiculous. These guys would stand up to a little interrogation much better than these guys do. One actually has a full blown fit. Had this gone on for a month; had they been kept in isolation and their minds played with, it would have been a different story. Also, what the heck. Couldn't military orders simply conceal the findings? Make them seem ridiculous? To take four good guys and do this interrogation room nonsense seems awfully silly. I remember when I saw the movie version of "Catch 22." When Yossarian is visited by Colonels Corn and Cathcart. They ask him for a favor. They want him to "like" them. They don't say why. He doesn't understand. But that's what they want. I think these guys are supposed to think they were incompetent and believe the CIS guys. I did notice one of them was Colonel Flag from MASH. Maybe that says it all.

Scott_Mercer Those looking for exploitation thrills or Saturday Matinée style adventure should avoid this picture in droves. There's some action here, with endless footage of planes taking off and landing, but a lot of the film is just talking heads.There's nothing wrong with straight science fiction, almost verging on straight thriller/drama. But this made for TV film didn't do it too well at all. I could see a series like The Twlight Zone handling this with a lot more panache.The acting from Glenn Ford is dependable, but not exciting. It's the writing that kicks the movie to the curb. But, on the other hand, if you have a desperate need to see David "Hutch" Soul in full overacting mode, this might be your cup of cheese. But remember, we never see the UFOs, other than as a blip on a radar screen, and some "authentic" footage of a totally unrelated UFO sighting somewhere else in the country. I'd give it a pass.