Close Up
written by Tony Barwick
directed by Alan Perry
Straker’s ambitious plan to launch a satellite that will track a UFO to the aliens’ home planet overlooks one key thing.
written by Tony Barwick
directed by Alan Perry
Straker’s ambitious plan to launch a satellite that will track a UFO to the aliens’ home planet overlooks one key thing.
More academic exercise than space adventure, `Close Up` sees UFO at its most fussily technical. There
are blueprints, satellites, planning meetings, schedules, spacewalks and
ultimately a denouement that relies solely on an overlooked piece of equipment.
Every time there is a hint of character activity, it is snuffed out by another
round of techno jargon or business speak. Devoid of much of an attempt to spice
up the material the end result is like watching a documentary about a top
secret organisation. If it were any drier it would be the desert; kids in 1970
would surely have lost interest.
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| Straker's easter egg was ridiculously complicated |
