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Proximity

2020

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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 5 Critic Reviews

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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 9 Ratings

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Shout! Studios | Release Date (Streaming): May 15, 2020 | Not Rated

Starring: Anthony Bradford, Christian Prentice, Christopher Murray, Darin Cooper, David Baumgardner, Don Scribner, Highdee Kuan, Ian Coleman, Joseph Buttler, Kylie Contreary, Nomi Abadi, Pamela Holt, Ryan Masson, Sarah Navratil, Shaw Jones

Summary: A young scientist working for NASA receives a mysterious signal from space through one of the satellites at work. When he goes to investigate, his entire world turns upside down - he is abducted by extra terrestrials.

Director: Eric Demeusy

Genre(s): Sci-Fi, Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 119 min

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The Hollywood Reporter

Sheri Linden

May 16, 2020

Good-looking and technically well crafted, the film struggles to get past pastiche and conjure an involving world of its own. Read full review

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The Film Stage Jared Mobarak

May 14, 2020

The script is sadly too shallow to bring everything together. Read full review

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The Guardian Leslie Felperin

May 14, 2020

This dorky, silly sci-fi feature offers a weird blend of high-grade craftsmanship (especially from the visual effects, cinematography and music departments), and guileless ineptitude, especially in the crucial realms of screenwriting, acting and editing. Read full review

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Rolling Stone

Peter Travers

May 15, 2020

A tale of alien abduction, Proxmity serves as an in-and-out impressive calling card for debuting feature writer and director Eric Demeusy. Read full review

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Movie Nation Roger Moore

May 15, 2020

But this clunky movie is more fun to play the “Wait, why?” game with than to actually watch. Read full review

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lesmoore

May 17, 2020

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Decent enough B-movie Sci-Fi fare. Not completely a spoiler, but Jesus H. Christ there was a moment there that really took me out of the picture.… Expand

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Dubeau

May 16, 2020

Proximity is a sympathetic teen flick fiction movie. The story is good until 2/3 of the movie. Then you fall into androids, religious motive and super heroes kind of powers. The FX are really good for such a small budget movie. The soundtrack is kind of teen related audience and sometimesProximity is a sympathetic teen flick fiction movie. The story is good until 2/3 of the movie. Then you fall into androids, religious motive and super heroes kind of powers. The FX are really good for such a small budget movie. The soundtrack is kind of teen related audience and sometimes distracting. The acting is unequal. I am unsure about the casting, some are pretty good, some barely on the line. The ending was a mix bag. I really hated the religious aspect of it, but I like the other stuff. I don't think the ending is any justification for Alien's presence. It's just too stupid to swallow for any intelligent audience. I give it 52% because some actors were pretty good in it. The ending can be deceiving but the rest of the movie is acceptable.… Expand

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AWESOM-0

May 21, 2020

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The first half of this movie was quite good. If it stayed on that kind of quality trajectory it would have been a 7 or 7.5 for me. Then things turned and not in a good way. It all went bad at the moment they introduced the gov agency (men in black) to capture Isaac. It's weird that it seemed like the acting and story took a nose dive, I'm in shock at how bad it got.… Expand

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Mack9393

Dec 31, 2022

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Aliens coming to earth looking for Jesus? Cool idea, poor execution. One solid twist surrounded by half assed cliches and awful writing. The sound track is unbelievably bad too. Idk how some of those songs made it into a movie.… Expand

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jpritcha

Jun 1, 2020

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. 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.… Expand

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tdebug

Sep 22, 2020

Low budget with big script holes. “Secret agency” with their “androids” are as cheap as dad from Transformers movie.

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eva3si0n

Dec 31, 2020

Proximity begins as an interesting low-budget sci-fi movie. Then the script begins to overlook the world around it and its rules. After that, a complete crack begins with theft and struggle with whom it is not clear and why. And looking at it is already painful. Another person shot this, andProximity begins as an interesting low-budget sci-fi movie. Then the script begins to overlook the world around it and its rules. After that, a complete crack begins with theft and struggle with whom it is not clear and why. And looking at it is already painful. Another person shot this, and for some reason I am ashamed of the viewer. The end of the film is so generally one of the dumbest scenes. Utter disappointment.… Expand

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