Watch the Skies (2022)

I didn't know too much about this film except that it follows Denise who is always in trouble with the law and is on the hunt to find out what happened to her father who disappeared years earlier and she enlists the help of the UFO group that he was a part of. The central performance from Inez Dahl Torhaug because she has this thing about her that she is missing something as the film progresses, she realises that the thing she was missing is family and the misfit group of UFO Sweden is her family. 

Despite the slightly cliched ending, I thought that it was interesting enough. I was never bored and thought that the pacing was quite good. Also Denise is driven enough to be likeable and the members of the UFO group are quirky enough to be interesting and the one one that stood out was Gunnar who is reluctant to trust Denise and when the rest of the group decide to follow her journey he effectively gets stroppy and hobbles away. 

The scene where Denise actually meets her father it’s a nice moment because it feels like a moment that makes Denise complete and she becomes a better person when she realises that she has everything she needs. The reality that it wasn't aliens but in fact an anomaly that led to a black hole (got lost in the exposition to be honest) is quite a bold thing to do in a film that makes it seem like aliens are going to be involved. When the story moves 2 years, I did think it was strange how no-one mentions it. There wasn't even a line a dialogue.

When I bought the ticket, I thought that it was a Swedish language film but was disappointed when it turned out to be in English. There is trivia that they used AI to move the lips so that it matched with the english dubbing. For the most part this works but there were a couple of times when it didn't quite work but on the whole it was fine. There is still something to be said to see how a film was made. If the film was made in English then fine but it was made in Swedish so that is how I would like to have seen it. Overall the film was fine. It was one of those films that would have been just as enjoyable watching on TV at home.