When a movie promises first contact between humans and aliens, I pay attention.  This one, even with its weird title, looked like it might be dramatic and creepy, and perhaps thrilling.  No thrills surfaced but it does maintain a creep factor, and it is fairly dramatic.  It is also nonsensical, and by the end I was wondering what the hell had happened.

Kerry Bellessa’s story posits that a meteor strike in the waters off Miami Beach is more unnatural than natural, so a group of SETI scientists are sent to investigate.  SETI is the acronym for Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, you see, and the government wants to know about such things.  But along with the scientists are two men who run the boat they charter, and one of them, Jonah (Michael Beach), is a magnet for trouble of Biblical proportions.  On a sea as flat as glass the team encounters . . . its own boat, plus a submerged pig and some other nasty surprises.

The somewhat promising premise is quickly overshadowed by Jonah’s reading of the situation as a matter of ascending evil rather than otherworldly visitation.  The contrast between science and devilry is intriguingly established through the dialogue — and then the story completely falls apart.  Things happen, things appear, people perish, etc., except that it hasn’t happened yet.  And then it does, and the characters do nothing about it even though they know what’s coming.  It just gets stranger from there.

Ultimately the film reaches its pointless conclusion, where nothing makes sense at all, except to intimate that the otherworldly visitation may indicate the rise of the devil on modern Earth.  Or not.  I’m not sure, and I don’t think it matters.  After the first half-hour this movie is a mess; skip it.  ☆ 1/2.  3 December 2022.