Review of Proximity (2020) by Jpritcha — 01 Jun 2020

Well... the CG is pretty good. That's to be expected with Eric Demeusy's long list of Hollywood VFX work, Howerver, it appears that that's where the entire movie's budget went. Everything else about this movie is laughably bad.

The acting and script are stilted and unconvincing. The tone and pacing are all over the place which kills any tension the movie tries to build. The vocal music choices are bizarre and contribute to the tone problem.

The world and characters are never fleshed out or explained in any meaningful way. The movie instead uses its 2 hour runtime to linger on a bunch of drawn out scenes that contribute almost nothing to the plot, making it feel extremely bland.

The main evil robot enemies have the classic robot aim problem of missing every shot they take. To cap it all off, ~5 minutes before the end it's revealed that the aliens came to earth to look for Jesus (I was laughing uncontrollably at that point, at least this explained some of the Christian soft pop-rock music choices).

The movie then abruptly ends with a "we fell in love, the bad guy got fired, and that's my unbelievable experience" TLC/Halmark/Lifetime feel good monologue. TL;DR Proximity reveals itself to be a laughably bad Christian movie, with all of that genre's usual tropes, masquerading itself as a CG filled Hollywood sci-fi blockbuster and adding in many of that genre's worst tropes too.

This makes for a simultaneously very weird and very boring experience.