I just watched Bugonia (a movie) on Peacock. It's billed as two conspiracy theorists kidnap a CEO because they believe she comes from the Andromeda galaxy, and now I'll warn you about spoilers...
For most of the movie, it surely seems as if the kidnap victim is as human as you and me, and the kidnappers, also human, are out of their minds (actually, one of them, brilliantly played by Jesse Plemons, much more than his sidekick). This part of the movie is lifted by Plemons' acting, but has little else to commend it. I don't especially enjoy narratives about psycho conspiracy theorists, and never less so than nowadays, when we have them running our government.
The big twist in the movie, which comes near the end, but I guessed as soon as I read the description, was that the CEO was indeed someone from distant outer space. And this might have made, could have made, a good story, except that the plot was like a grade B movie made a century ago. Who knows, it might have been a great silent movie, and I certainly wouldn't have objected to less screaming throughout.
As it is, we're treated to lots of blood and gore, and the ending, in which the interstellar overlords decide to kill the entire human race, was so ridiculous, I can't say it even qualifies in this century as science fiction. Its morality was high, or attempted to be, and its science close to nil.
But I guess we're in increasing need of morality plays, as we struggle with this increasingly immoral government that we find in our nation these days.
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