Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

Dotsthavesp I wanted to but couldn't!

Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

barberic-695-574135 Overall a good thriller with an unexpected ending. It´s one of those movies that you can really only watch once as once you know the ending it takes all the "magic" away. Would we watch it again, maybe in a few years when the memory is not so good.

justintomovies Okay, this movie has a very nice cinematography! I kinda like the concept of the story. And I do enjoy some of the scenes on this movie but something is really not good in it! Also, it will make you as a viewer wanting for more to happen or make something for it to happen in the movie. This will also leave you hanging.I can say that the ending really sucks including the interview part flashing while in credits! I don't know but i don't like it.And although, it has its darker side which makes it different with the others but really, I'm not convinced.

robert-temple-1 This is an eerie film relying upon a mysterious style and a very wild and remote filming location, namely the southern wastes and deserts of Morocco. The story is ostensibly set in the mountains of Afghanistan, clearly too dangerous as a place to shoot. According to the story, the CIA has detected an alien presence in the Afghanistan mountains, and they know more about it than they are letting on. They send a special ops agent in a major's uniform to command a platoon of special forces 'grunts' and go in search of the alien base. It is in reality a suicide mission, from which no one is expected to return, but the soldiers aren't told that. Mysterious lights begin to appear, which rush towards people and then vanish upwards suddenly. 'Ghosts' and phantoms are glimpsed. The soldiers encounter an elderly shaman sitting alone in a cave. He has a small gold object shaped like an aircraft sitting near him, which the CIA man pockets. It is an enlarged model of the famous gold object found in Colombia, which van Däniken claimed was a model of an ancient spaceship. How this got from South America to Afghanistan is not explained, but then the whole point of the film is that nothing is explained, and it is meant to be like that. Eventually we realize that what are based in the mountains are 'vimanas', namely alien spacecraft, 'vimana' being an ancient Sanskrit word. Ancient Hindu texts refer to these flying machines of the gods in antiquity, and this subject has been discussed in many books for nearly a century. Many UFO enthusiasts claim that vimanas were ancient UFOs. Because they were said to work with 'mercury engines', they have also been associated with the attempts by the Nazi SS to create advanced aircraft and power sources using mercury, and it is not unlikely that the Nazis were attempting to replicate the vimanas described in the ancient texts, since it is known that Himmler and Hitler were advised by some Sanskrit scholars, in connection with their racial mania for 'Ancient Aryans'. Hitler and Himmler were also convinced that Tibet was the origin of Aryan civilisation, hence their many research expeditions to Tibet, and a setting of a base in the neighbouring mountains of Afghanistan fits in with this idea. The film was written and directed by Daniel Myrick, who made THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT (1999). He specializes in scaring people by the use of suggestion rather than by explicitly showing them things. That approach draws its inspiration from German expressionist films, from CAT PEOPLE (1942, see my review), and also from Hitchcock, and it can enable an effective suspense film to be made on a very low budget. This film is effective and intriguing and is a good example of how you can make something out of nothing if you just have some imagination, determination, and ability. As for the CIA involvement, they firmly maintain that extraterrestrial life is 'the ultimate security issue', and they have been acting in accordance with that view since the late 1940s. And when you have spooks dealing with something 'ultimate', watch out.

ajheinrich59 One of the best Sci-Fi movies I've seen in a long while. And I've seen plenty. All this whining and complaining about unanswered questions, low-budget CG, unauthentic language, misses the whole point of the movie.....to entertain and to get us to think...THINK, people....about those unanswered questions and seek out the answers. As Mulder would say, "The truth is out there". It's up to us to be willing and courageous enough to seek out those answers, to follow the truth wherever it leads, accepting the truth and the conclusions they bring us to, however ugly they may be, no matter how much they may challenge our preconceived notions of who we are and what we're here for.