The movie is really good sci-fi, but it's still religious propaganda.

Rating: Null/10 (21 July 2013)

Don't get me wrong, the movie is good. Well shot, well written, good story, overall good sci-fi. We're used to seeing religious propaganda in films, and it usually bothers hardcore sci-fi fans who tend to be either Atheists or non-religious, but we deal with it, and we turn a blind eye if it means a good movie. It's usually some Christian propaganda, and we know it so damn well, we can recognize it in a nanosecond. When your holy book was written almost two thousand years ago, and is based mostly on bronce-age myths, it's hard to hide your message in a futuristic sci- fi film. Now, when your holy book is a craptastical sci-fi book written less than a century ago, it's easier to hide it in a futuristic sci-fi film about aliens. If you remove the thin veil that has been thrown over this story, you can see that sally probably got to earth not on an oddly shaped spaceship, but on a modified DC-8, if you know what I mean. You watch this movie, and you suddenly realize it was written by L Ron Hubbard.
So, yes, it is religious propaganda, but the premise of the religion is so preposterous (well, just as ridiculous as all the other religions, but people are usually better at smelling new myths rather than old myths), that you can just forget about it and enjoy a perfectly cromulent sci-fi film.