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- 1977
- TV-14
- Columbia Pictures
- 2 h 13 m
- 1977
- TV-14
- Columbia Pictures
- 2 h 13 m
Summary Power repairman Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss) has an extraordinary encounter with a strange spacecraft while out on a call. Recurring visions of a mountain fuel an increasing obsession that drives him to an emotional breaking point. Desperate to understand what he has experienced, he finds an ally in Jillian (Melinda Dillon), a single mot...
Directed By: Steven Spielberg
- 1977
- TV-14
- Columbia Pictures
- 2 h 13 m
- 1977
- TV-14
- Columbia Pictures
- 2 h 13 m
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
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7.8
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Summary Power repairman Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss) has an extraordinary encounter with a strange spacecraft while out on a call. Recurring visions of a mountain fuel an increasing obsession that drives him to an emotional breaking point. Desperate to understand what he has experienced, he finds an ally in Jillian (Melinda Dillon), a single mot...
Directed By: Steven Spielberg
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Universal Acclaim
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
90
100% Positive
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
0% Mixed
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
The visuals here...are never less than stunning in their impact, yet always seem well within the realm of possibility. It is also to Spielberg's credit, however, that despite all of this visual opulence, his actors are never dwarfed.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 272 User Ratings
7.8
82% Positive
223 Ratings
223 Ratings
16% Mixed
43 Ratings
43 Ratings
2% Negative
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 272 User Ratings
7.8
82% Positive
223 Ratings
223 Ratings
16% Mixed
43 Ratings
43 Ratings
2% Negative
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
Close Encounters of the Third Kind is a great film from Steven Spielberg. One of the best UFO movies. A very rare case when contact with UFOs is not invasion or aggression. A great good story about contact with another intelligent being. Classics that will be relevant for a very long time.
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It's one of the great moviegoing experiences.
It must weather some bummy mid-passage exposition, but the movie survives its flaws triumphantly, evolving into a uniquely transporting filmgoing spectacle.
Steven Spielberg's giant, spectacular Close Encounters of the Third Kind...is the best—the most elaborate—1950's science fiction movie ever made, a work that borrows its narrative shape and its concerns from those earlier films, but enhances them with what looks like the latest developments in movie and space technology.
A genuine work of the popular imagination. It's the first true populist science-fiction film, a blend of the most startling, far-out special effects with the most ordinary human material of the American Heartland. [21 Nov 1977, p.88]
Steven Spielberg's film climaxes in final 35 minutes with an almost ethereal confrontation with life forms from another world; the first 100 minutes, however, are somewhat redundant in exposition and irritating in tone.
(Labor Day 40th anniversary re-release)
What "Jaws" did to the water or the unknown terror lurking beneath it, Spielberg's follow up did for the skies or the unknown mysteries traveling above them. Not only does this hold up forty years later, but its hot at the time UFO and government conspiracy topics seem more intelligent and adult now and are compared to today's juvenile genre blockbusters.
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I'd classify this as an easy watch, not a great film. While the film is both visually and auditorily appealing, by any reasonable standards, not much happens, and there's almost no human interaction in the film. Why Lacombe was portrayed as a non-English speaker I will never know, as it added nothing to the plot and extended the movie.
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Close Encouters of the Third Kind's biggest selling point is its visual effects. Even today , they look good.however the whole movie is plotless. Rory's argument with his wife takes a lot of screen time yet it never developes story how the other characters and effected UFO's visiting the Earth .
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The film was technically ahead of its time but Spielberg's story writing not better than an amateur. It could have been an interesting film if Spielberg didn't fill the plot with unnecessary scenes. He should have tried to create better connections between the events and characters. Some scene goes one forever and then story jumps into a completely different scene. Spielberg doesn't want to answer many question about the aliens ,thing it would make the film sophisticates.However it fails that intellectual touch in 2001:Space Odyssey.
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Production Company
Julia Phillips and Michael Phillips Productions,
EMI Films
Release Date Nov 16, 1977
Duration 2 h 13 m
Rating TV-14
Tagline Close Encounter of the First Kind - Sighting of a UFO. Close Encounter of the Second Kind - Physical Evidence. Close Encounter of the Third Kind - Contact. WE ARE NOT ALONE
Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 2 Wins & 9 Nominations
Golden Globes, USA
• 4 Nominations
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA
• 2 Wins & 11 Nominations
