Midnight Special

2016 "He's not like us."
6.6| 1h52m| PG-13| en| More Info
Released: 18 March 2016 Released
Producted By: Warner Bros. Pictures
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
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Official Website: http://www.midnightspecialmovie.com/
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A father and son go on the run after the dad learns his child possesses special powers.

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pthork To anyone giving this movie anything less than a 7/10... you are uncultured in film and have not the eye of a true indie film lover. You are the same person that quotes legally blonde and spends half their time scrolling through Instagram during a movie.This movie, including the director, is unique in many ways including his choice of actors, scripts, score, and cinematography. It introduced new ideas, not recycled plots/theories from other films, and did it in such a magical way that can't be compared to any other film. And the end of the film reveals an amazing hidden truth about the universe that has all captured our imagination at least once in our life before, and that this movie does a fabulous job of making it real.
StuOz A young boy has special powers and the FBI want him.Close Encounters Of The Third Kind meets ET without all the wonderfully uplifting John Williams music playing over the thing. Midnight Special caught me by surprise, I hired the DVD from the library because the DVD cover stated that the film was science fiction. At first I was reluctant to hire it out as I suspected it was yet another wham-bam-slam CGI-dominated sci-fi flick filled with smart ass characters...which seems to be the way these movies are made these days.To my surprise I was wrong. A nice retro feel here. Slow pace. Great acting. No pretty boys. A reasonable musical score. A bit of a road movie going on. I liked it. But having said all this...I can't say it is one of the great films of the 21st century. However, it is the type of science fiction flick Hollywood needs to do more often these days as compared to the last two Star Wars films (The Last Jedi and Rogue One)....Midnight Special is a masterpiece.
merelyaninnuendo Midnight SpecialThis is a mere peculiar discussed topic rather than an astonishing tale like a good old E.T. and maybe this is the reason it stands alone on its extraordinary point of view.
Michael Ledo May contain some plot/theme spoilers.Alton (Jaeden Lieberher) Alf would be too obvious, likes to listen to the radio...in his head. He repeats what he hears thus "speaking in tongues" which appeals to "The Ranch" a Texas cult built upon Alton's spewing including classified information which draws due diligent attention. Roy (Michael Shannon), a member of the group, absconds with his own child (adopted by the pastor) with the aide of a friend Lucas (Joel Edgerton) a policeman who is not a religious person. Mom (Kirsten Dunst) left the compound 2 years ago.Seems Alton has places to go, like Frank Lloyd Wright heaven, which appears near Pascagoula Mississippi?Now how this seemingly alien baby had human parents and had to live in the dark as an infant wasn't discussed in the film. This is a film which attempts to combine religion, spirituality and UFO sightings into one "real" explanation, although I liked "Altergeist" string theory better.The story was interesting even if the characters tilted to the stiff side and the dialogue mostly reeked as in the case of most serious sci-fi films where the script writer was too engrossed in the me-so-clever plot as to take a minute to create memorable characters.Guide: Could be viewed as going against the grain of religion. Minor PG swearing. No sex or nudity.