Knock-knock

Rating: Null/10 (5 January 2020)

Denis Villeneuve accomplishes a tremendous feat in creating a film that could serve as a deserving counterbalance to two of Steven Speilberg's classic sci-fi flicks, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, and be just as successful in box-office revenue, albeit coming across as rather an underwhelming, sedate one.
Though all three films share common themes such as dealing with initiation of contact with alien life-forms and the ensuing communication or subsequent cooperation with such beings, the French-Canadian director made stylistic choices that sharply contrasts from that of Spielberg that resulted in an alien-contact narrative that enhanced the visceral experience while enabling multiple readings of it...