They Chose Here

The scouts

A UFO sighting that turns into something worse—or maybe nothing at all—is exactly the kind of premise that makes consensus critics squirm, and these directors know it. They're weaponizing the audience's hunger for cosmic payoff and then pulling the rug out, which is bold enough that most scouts will call it a miss.

The film sits in productive tension with sci-fi lineage—it gestures toward Close Encounters wonder but steers into Lynchian unease, and the editing rhythm (sparse, deliberate) suggests filmmakers conscious of how silence and restraint function in genre tradition. There's a formal intelligence here that deserves attention.

The decision to keep the brothers' reactions ambiguous—to never confirm what they're actually seeing or feeling—hinges on two performances that communicate everything through stillness, and that economy of expression is what transforms eight minutes of two guys in a field into something genuinely unsettling.

Reviews

This is really well shot, especially since it all takes place in the dark. What's happening is very clear at all times, and it's nicely paced.