Good-looking and technically well crafted, the film struggles to get past pastiche and conjure an involving world of its own.

The script is sadly too shallow to bring everything together.

This dorky, silly sci-fi feature offers a weird blend of high-grade craftsmanship (especially from the visual effects, cinematography and music departments), and guileless ineptitude, especially in the crucial realms of screenwriting, acting and editing.

A tale of alien abduction, Proxmity serves as an in-and-out impressive calling card for debuting feature writer and director Eric Demeusy.

But this clunky movie is more fun to play the “Wait, why?” game with than to actually watch.