A series of RLM watches got me to watch Amazon's "Vast of Night" which I really enjoyed. (Though thank-god for the Roku device's "replay with closed captioning" feature as the thick 50's midwestern-ny accents are hard to grasp.)
Good performances by the young actors in it, good atmosphere and use of the time period and setting, and an effective ending. Some of the editing/presentation choices I didn't care for (like the couple of times it switches the video quality of an ancient very early television. I "think" it's supposed to go with the slant the movie is supposed to be a "Twilight Zone" episode situation and not "really happening" but I'm not sure it needed that angle. I think the movie would have been just as good, and more effective, if it had just stuck with it taking place as "really happening" instead of these odd cuts to the old-timey TV quality.
There's also a quite a few slow "just dialogue" scenes which RLM equated to the Indianapolis Speech from Jaws, which I don't agree with. The impact of the Indianapolis speech is that it was an event that really happened, here characters are talking about alien signals and abductions so it loses some of depth and grasp of hearing a horrifying story of something real.
But the actors (the radio call-in telling his story and the old woman in the house) do a good job with their delivery.
I quite liked it in the end though. Good job with atmosphere, setting and the actors. But, man, have your closed captioning or instant replay feature ready.
