saraccan I was really into it until they started becoming super friendly with the aliens. Thats one thing I can never understand in these movies. The build up and suspense is almost always good then they just have to go and show these funny little alien people walking around and ruin everything. However this movie from 1977 just goes to show how there aren't that many good sci-fi movies anymore even though the tech is obviously here. Makes me sad. Its an alien movie about a guy and also some other people who are having weird visions to visit some weird mountain after their encounters.

Sherparsa This movie is overrated ... surely very well made and still worth watching "for entertainment purposes only!" even today because of its good (but not exceptional) cinematography ... but too overrated no matter what ... yes, a few fine scenes and even maybe a lot of calculated government-approved subversive messages too, but that's about it all ... have seen much better entertaining movies of this director (The Jurassic series for example) and this one barely cuts it even half as much ...

muons The movie starts in a chaotic fashion and disengages the audience right at the get-go. The awfully slow combinations of disconnected scenes include noise, dust, flashlights in darkness, yelling and screaming at the breakfast table, erratic behavior of a father of two, dispassionate government workers and so on. The movie is not even sure about its own genre. What starts like an UFO encounter which was trendy of its time takes a weird turn into a cheesy horror flick with all the known cliches like an eerie soundtrack, screws coming off, doors slamming all by themselves and then goes back to its nonexistent plot. Only in the last half an hour or so, Spielberg makes some futile efforts to tie the loose ends together in a weak plot but that appears too little, too late. I can't believe he doesn't even force his imagination a bit later in ET where he recycles the same alien characters of this movie. I saw the movie about 40 years after its release and felt like it aged 10000 years.

hrkepler It is very rare to see science-fiction movies with more depth into exploring human nature than building up special effects spectacle. 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' is one of those rare movies that combine them both. Well structured screenplay and believable story and situations really help. One can even say that this is the most realistic movie about alien encounters. The film is quite well aged and holds today as the special effects are still effective (although the version I saw in the cinema last night was probably CGI enhanced), it has its tense and eerie moments, well built suspense and of course, to mention again, well developed characters and story.'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' was real beginning of Spielberg's love affair with aliens and space that has produced many wonderful films and TV-series. If you ever have the chance to see it on the big screen then go for it as 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' is real cinema going experience.