A father and son go on the run, pursued by the government and a cult drawn to the child's special powers. Alton Meyer is a boy unlike any other in the world with bizarrely powerful abilities and strange weaknesses. In the middle of the night, his father, Roy, spirits him away from the isolated cult that practically worships him and is determined to regain him at all costs. At the same time, Alton's abilities have been noticed by the US government as well and they are equally insistent on getting to the bottom of this mystery with Paul Sevier of the National Security Agency leading the Federal pursuit with his own questions. These rival hunts force father and son into a desperate run towards a looming date with destiny that could change everything. I don't usually write movie reviews but felt people need to be warned about this. As other people have written, on the plot and story level this movie is ridiculously stupid. A couple of examples are things like the windows being blown out of a car and in the next scene them being in tact again. An invisible city appearing and then disappearing, being witnessed by people across the entire Southwest United States (including hundreds of federal agents) then in the next scene the very same federal agents questioning one of the stars of the movie if he expects them to believe the boy woman just vanished? Then in the next scene you see the other character in a prison yard. If the film had been extraordinarily entertaining this things would be forgivable (Several David Lynch films come to mind) but it isn't. The film is slow and convoluted and you think the things that are not explained will be explained in the end. They aren't. This movie is a joke…this film will never see a theater nor should it. We are the progeny, and we are not what we hope to be ! There's no map to where you have to meet !, We are eternally accessible!There Is no way that anyone has to go to any lengths of access travel to find their origins !We are all paltry exhibits of the best to come,although someone knows that life literally changes In an Instant !People must become a ware that there are different dimensions and that life changes In an Instant,and not In an overdrawn, life experience ,where Individuals have to scatter all over the world to experience their own supernatural experience !There are species out there that are much more superior to us In every way ! Why should they spend time with us , except to now and then ,check In and perhaps throw us a bone !Silly people! Nichols has a light touch when it comes to genre, which is Midnight Special's great blessing and curse.
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