Excellent Thriller set in 1979

Rating: 10/10 (11 June 2011)

I was nineteen years old in 1979 so I can relate to the time this film took place and JJ Abrams does an excellent job in keeping with the times. Although he did have a Sony Walkman in one scene which I felt might have been stretching it a bit. Not that the Walkman didn't exist, it did. Actually Sony introduced the Walkman on July 1, 1979 and technically, the main portion of the film occurs on or around June of 1979. OK, I know, I'm a dork who looks for authenticity in film making when they go to a specific year. However, it wasn't that big of a deal.
This is a terrific film and I know you may have seen the ET meets Transformers, or Alien meets Goonies, or other such comparisons. I will say it has Spielberg written all over it, which is a good thing because Spielberg is Spielberg. J J Abrams wrote and directed this film. If he keeps making films like this the film industry will be a better place.
So if you like E.T., Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Sandlot, Goonies and Alien; you will love this film! Go see it.