But, and I've already outlined my issues with the film, so I won't get into that again, but those flaws, at least they were to me, dragged the movie down tremendously. So the issues I have with the film have absolutely nothing to do with the cast, the cast is great. I mean he was still good, but Ethan and River, unsurprisingly, stole the show. Jason Presson is also good, but he didn't really do much of note after this film, his most high profile role after this would've been Gremlins 2. The acting is real good, particularly considering that both River Phoenix and Ethan Hawke would've been in their mid-teens by this point in time and they were already really good. Like I mentioned, everything leading to the meeting was good and entertaining. Not like Charles Grodin and Robert De Niro in Midnight Run where they insulted the shit out of each other, but they were pretty much in each other's cases for the majority of the film, so I thought that was pretty fun. I think the chemistry between the leads is actually quite good and, surprisingly, antagonistic. I just think there's a certain charm about it that carries a lot of it, it's also a pretty entertaining film. With that said, I was enjoying the film prior to the boys meeting the aliens. You don't want something in your film to detract from everything that came prior to it, but that's exactly what this movie does. It actually detracted from the film instead of adding to it and, of course, you want the opposite to be the case. In all, as the climax to the film, it just didn't do anything for me at all and it actually brought the movie down a lot, to me. The comedy is also not very good in this segment. It's like, supposedly, meant to be this life-changing experience for these three boys, but it just doesn't feel like it.
It just felt way too forced and contrived to be effective.
Perhaps that's a little strong, but considering that the film pretty much spent all its time building up to the moment when they make contact with an alien species, the execution of it definitely left a lot to be desired, at least in my view. And then they went to the alien spaceship and it all fell apart. I was actually enjoying this movie for the most part.
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