😍 2022-05-11 20:01:54 – Paris/France.
Science fiction on a small scale but with big narrative ambitions, that's what 'Captive Nation' offers, a film that can be found on Netflix and which went completely unnoticed in our theaters when it landed in the fall of 2020, a year after its premiere in the United States. Time has given it a certain cult aura, but of course it deserved better luck than that $8,8 million it raised against the $25 budget it was funded with.
Ten years after the arrival of extraterrestrials on our planet, we terrestrials have divided into two groups: those who have submitted to the visitors, collaborating with their designs, and a group of rebels who must launch quasi-guerrilla actions, urban terrorism and low intensity spying to avoid detection. Among them is a young man (Ashton Sanders) who has little to lose by joining the resistance.
“Captive Nation” was directed by Rupert Wyatt, responsible for the first part of the redémarrer of the "Planet of the Apes" franchise and gave it a stimulating documentary touch, reducing the dose of spectacle and keeping the action at ground level. Chases, interrogations in dirty basements, conspiracies in city centers... another way to see an alien invasion, aside from military heroes.
"Captive Nation" also has a splendid supporting cast, including Vera Farmiga, Jonathan Majors, and John Goodman, and brutal ship and alien design. The subtext of anti-Trump criticism and pro-social resistance movements such as Black Lives Matter spices up a raggedly paced and downside film, but very justifiable for its courage in times of endless franchises.
SOURCE: Reviews News
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