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I noticed the IMDb rating is unusually high. It is now at 7.1 from a total of 33 votes. All 11 written IMDb reviews are utterly stellar. All 11 written IMDb reviewers saw an advanced screening, so they are likely in the movie, part of the crew, or friends of those people. It’s an ok movie. The music is well-done, but it doesn’t always fit, and it’s overpowering. Not because it’s loud; but because it’s quite good and doesn’t fit with what is happening. In the beginning, it’s beautifully poignant-sounding, which makes no sense. There are drawn out moments of tension, which are almost absurd (the “Let ME drive the car” moment when the car won’t even start had me laughing hysterically…which I know it was not supposed to do, and the kerfuffle over the telescope that won’t fit in the car was just dopey…and also unintentionally comical). And then the music builds, but it builds beyond the acted-out tension and then has nowhere further to really go. The acting is fairly good. The beginning is way too drawn out, and the attempt to make these guys, who don’t even all know each other until this event, some kind of lifelong-friend team that is now back together is weird. Some things are a bit too complicated to understand (the radio signal science stuff). It’s not bad, but it ain’t no 8.6 or even 7.1 IMDb stars. Thank you, uploaders.