Maybe best/worst SF/Horror film I've ever seen....

Rating: Null/10 (1 December 2002)

.... sort of Blair Witch (minimalist sound track; kept you waiting for something really scary) meets the X-Files (where is this thing going???) meets the Exorcist (Fr. so & so has a crisis of faith, curable only by exposure to Earthly trauma). Yes there were some pretty silly elements to the plot, but I rather like the non-cinematic (and certainly non-theatrical) dialog which exposed the characters: I'd have to go back to Silkwood to find a film with characters and dialog this real. Should I be impressed, because the film had me on pins & needles over ... nothing? Or feel cheated because after all, what I was afraid of was the wicked witch of the West? Also, don't know that anyone else mentioned it, but I couldn't help wondering if (**** SPOILER HERE: ***) the alien's presumed "poison" wasn't perhaps, some sort of cure for Asthma, which puts the film more in the camp of "The Day the Earth Stood Still" and others which warn us of xenophobic reactions to well-intentioned aliens. I just saw it last night, but I'm leaning toward liking it.