Nerds That Geek Movie Review: 'Ejecta'

Written by Scott Edwards

I am a firm believer that searching for the truth behind things is the best way to learn what has been done. I have found several times that the information behind what I have been looking for is not what I wanted to know, but I do feel better about finding out the real story. Often times, doing this leads to disappointment, but why should that be? Knowing the truth is so much better than believing a fabricated story. In your search for answers, just know that it may not all be butterflies and rainbows when you find out what you really wanted to know, you could dig up something much darker that will change your outlook on things.

William Cassidy has been running his blog for many years, but it did not start until he first reported being abducted.  After this happened, William has wanted to get his story out there for anyone that will read it, but he knows there is something behind this activity. Waking up in foreign places without knowing how he has gotten there, William knows that he was not left alone, he has something left in him from his trip. Wanting to get his life back from the aliens that have placed him under some sort of spell, William takes many steps to ensure that he will be free from their control, but things get worse when a solar flare is making its way to earth.

Joe Sullivan is looking to make a name for himself and receiving an email from the famed William Cassidy inviting him up for an interview could be the greatest thing that has ever happened to him. Being a blogger himself, Joe wants to unlock the truth behind William’s story and what actually happened to him. Bringing his video camera with him, Joe is ready to record an interview, but on this night, he will capture so much more. As a strange explosion takes place outside of William’s cabin, Joe is looking for hard evidence of life from another world and will be famous, even if cyberspace is the only place where people can witness it all. Investigating the crash site, Joe and William have to fight for their lives when they realize a being from another planet is trying to hunt them down. 

Dr. Tobin wants answers when she has been able to secure William for questioning. As all of his blogs have been carefully monitored over the years, she is a believer that he is on the level, but when her team arrived at the crash site, they were not able to recover anything. Subjecting William to all sorts of torture that has worked during her investigations in the past, she is sure that she will be able to find the answers as to what has happened, but what she does not know is that she is being watched as well. As her soldiers are taken out and the night is nearing its end, Dr. Tobin gets to talk to her greatest foe, an alien that wants nothing more to kill her, but when she receives word that another visitor is coming to her station, she knows that her time is limited. 

This is a great take on aliens and what they are actually doing to people when they are abducted. It is hard to say if it is right or not, as I have never been one of the people that has been able to interact with the little green men, but it could be what they are doing. Although the story jumps around quite a bit and messes with the time lines, it works for the story that it is trying to tell. I will tell you one thing, if I witness an UFO crash in the middle of nowhere, I am booking it as far away as possible. Not knowing what means the government will go through to get the answers that it wants, it may be safer to not be there, so they cannot try their different questioning tactics on you. I enjoyed the movie, but a forewarning, you have to pay attention to the background while it is playing, since you will miss something that will leave you wondering how or why something happened when the story all comes together.

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