A not entirely successful rock musician meets a sweet-natured and sensitive girl. The pair soon fall in love. However, the girl is plagued by a sense of unease. After a while it feels as though something on the nearby military base is crying out for help...
"Wavelength" is a modest science fiction movie, probably made on a shoestring budget. It could have used more polish, especially with regard to the technical side of things. (Pretty sure I've seen some kind of microphone intruding on the action, not once but several times.) The movie tells a story about a group of aliens held captive in a top secret air force base plus prison. The "aliens" disappoint through their lack of alienness. We human beings have a certain form, which is linked to our functioning, our evolutionary history and our place in the great tree of life. So why should beings who evolved on a distant planet and function along completely different lines ressemble us so closely ? It's entirely possible that beings with attributes like the ones described in the movie would look like a cross between a cauliflower and a translucent sloop.
However, I can't say that I disliked "Wavelength" entirely, it seemed to have its heart in the right place. At times it even achieved a clumsy kind of poetry, for instance when showing the aliens travelling through a human city. What would aliens think of our busy modern cities, with their cars, their restaurants, their beggars, their "Look at me, look at me !" neon signs ? So five stars, for a movie that's neither superb nor dire.
"Wavelength" is a modest science fiction movie, probably made on a shoestring budget. It could have used more polish, especially with regard to the technical side of things. (Pretty sure I've seen some kind of microphone intruding on the action, not once but several times.) The movie tells a story about a group of aliens held captive in a top secret air force base plus prison. The "aliens" disappoint through their lack of alienness. We human beings have a certain form, which is linked to our functioning, our evolutionary history and our place in the great tree of life. So why should beings who evolved on a distant planet and function along completely different lines ressemble us so closely ? It's entirely possible that beings with attributes like the ones described in the movie would look like a cross between a cauliflower and a translucent sloop.
However, I can't say that I disliked "Wavelength" entirely, it seemed to have its heart in the right place. At times it even achieved a clumsy kind of poetry, for instance when showing the aliens travelling through a human city. What would aliens think of our busy modern cities, with their cars, their restaurants, their beggars, their "Look at me, look at me !" neon signs ? So five stars, for a movie that's neither superb nor dire.