Here's guessing that directors Darcy Weir and Lee Lustig will find their film - Beyond The Spectrum: Being Taken - heavily watched. They've hit apparent pay dirt with the latest in a long line of alien docs dating back to episodes of In Search Of, and this one is done particularly well. Of equal importance is the fact that the UFO/alien space is a documentary sub-genre with an absolutely insatiable historical audience that isn't going away.
Kudos to Weir and Lustig for narrowing the usually broad UFO-driven scope just a bit, as Beyond The Spectrum maintains a focus primarily on abduction scenarios. We see testimony here that whether freshly captured or historically aggregated tells a crisp and compelling story. These people - from the abductees themselves to those in the scientific community privy to their cases - project in a way that our values tell us is truthful were we to watch these same revelations recounted from the witness stand. It's this carefully curated selection of interview material - along with fast-paced, informational, "what if" narration - that drives this film past its more dubious pretenders.
Before even giving it a chance, the cynic may have seen or passed subjective judgement on enough alien documentary offerings to preemptively write off any new submissions as nothing more than additional 2AM Cheetos-and-weed fodder. To each their own, but in a testament to the pacing and writing embedded in Beyond The Spectrum: Being Taken, this is an abduction doc that I found sharply engaged parts of the brain while allowing others to unplug. Highly recommended.
