Just finished watching the incredibly compelling movie 'Alien Autopsy', based on a true story. I love Ant and Dec but my thoughts about this movie before I saw it were that it was going to be a poor attempt at a sci-fi comedy. However I've got to give it to the cast and crew that I've had to eat my words because the movie is actually really good.
Ignoring the presence of the alien footage (which is afterall the reason most people watched this film) the story surrounding the two main characters is entertaining, funny and a sequence of incredibly fortunate circumstances. Despite not being involved in any real acting roles for quite a while (at least to my knowledge - I'm happy to be corrected on this) Ant and Dec are very believable as Roy and Gary, the two very lucky stars of the film. The story revolves around Roy's fortunate discovery of a rare recording of an alien autopsy at the Roswell US military base. However, a bad turn of luck leads to the original film reel being severely damaged and Roy facing an unhappy future at the hands of his financier. Roy comes up with the idea to recreate the events that he saw and release his homemade video as the original.
Having seen the movie I was immediately inspired to browse YouTube for the original 1945 footage that was released to the world. What strikes me about this footage is the realism of it. Had I not seen the Ant and Dec film I could have easily believed the 1945 footage to be of an actual alien autopsy. It brings to light how easy it is to fake such an alien encounter and at the same time how much effort was put into making the fake autopsy. Some of the footage on YouTube is so gory as to be truly believable.
Whether or not such footage is real or fake, one of the most important things these videos do is to raise awareness and discussion of the possibility of life beyond our planet. Debate is hot on the subject and just the comments on the YouTube videos are strongly in favour for one side or the other.
At the end of the day, 'Alien Autopsy' is a thoroughly entertaining film and whether or not you believe in aliens, this is worthwhile watching.
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