Purely Joyful Movie!

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

I love this movie, The visuals, The sound, the effects. Really weird and different, but awesome. We've witnessed a large amount of films that cover the "shadow base" subject matter as well as mind control topics. This subject was always popular, but for some reason it's in about everything lately...especially horror films.Montauk Chronicles is the epitome of that as it's covered by the filmmaker (Christopher P. Garetano) in ways that set it apart from anything else on similar topics. It's also allegedly true. So it begins with a mysterious masked character (JAMES) who tells the story of his hijacked youth and being wrangled by members of his grade school faculty to part of an evil mind control project beneath the Montauk Air Force Base. It's followed by a solid intro, with fabulous photography, and soon brings us to the three main storytellers. Now in their old age, the subjects all tell their individual tales with beautifully rendered flashback sequences in between. Some of the scenes were as creepy as any euro horror movie from the 1970's I don't want to give too much away but it continues through the entire tale and ends once again with the mysterious masked man.I didn't get the vibe that it was staged, so judge for yourself. Either way I enjoyed the hell out of it.It also truly opened my mind to what happened there. The subjects seemed truthful enough. Don't miss this movie. Shut the lights, open your mind....-Vick

tl;dr Wanted to love it, struggled to finish it.The good: For an indie production, it was well shot, with good audio. It is, in theory, a documentary about the different claims regarding the various "Montauk projects" discussed in paranormal media.. It interviews several notable personalities involved in the body of Montauk lore, without derision, or apparent positive bias. It wasn't actually the 4 hours I thought I had been watching it. The less good: Finding a well executed documentary on any fringe topic, is like finding a unicorn, washing your car for you. Those that achieve any degree of success as a cohesive and engaging narrative provide a context for the different interviews, use recreation to support that, and give you a good story. I was hoping for a good overview of all of the extraordinary claims about secret projects that crossed the border into science fiction at Montauk from the last 6 decades. You can either believe all of the tales told about Montauk in the alternative literature, or treat them with complete skepticism. The middle ground as a viewer is to treat it as folktales. I wasn't expecting Montauk Chronicles to prove anything to me. I was expecting to leave it with a decent grasp of the stories related to it, and a sense of how the subjects giving interviews had contributed to its lore. That scope could have been sweeping, or parochial. I had heard or seen interviews with the main three subjects, and have a passing familiarity with tales related to Camp Hero that are a staple of what I'll call the genre. If it wasn't for that, I wouldn't have had the slightest clue as to why I should care about their stories, and what those stories really were. I find it tragic honestly. Regardless of your opinion of anyone's authenticity Bielek, Nichols, and Swerdlow, have been contributing to Montauk lore for decades, and what ended up on screen offers scant satisfaction. Those guys won't be around forever, and once they're gone they will become part of the great continuum of rehashed references in future works, and it will become increasingly difficult to know those stories in their words. Aside from that, a lot of beach scenes, a lot of dash cam, and recreations that didn't help me understand anything. And they were interminable.I have no issue with recreation, or a measure of theatrical license, these were just un-needed. For aggressive skeptics, if it had been a better production, you could hate it more, for better reasons. For true believers who won't criticise anything in paranormal media ever, I am obviously a disinformation agent, and my review should be discarded.

-Montauk Chronicles (2015) movie review: -Montauk Chronicles is a documentary following a series of 'alien' events at the town of Montauk. Basically it is a UFO documentary.-It was 'aight. I don't care much for documentaries like this, but I was at least entertained.-The story was true, but definitely told in a biased way.-The pace was surprisingly good.-The people that were in it were interesting, but not that interesting. They were real, but also very biased. You can tell they had already formulated their opinion, so when the film opened with an opening stating it would tell an unbiased story, and then only interviewed the people that believe it, it kinda lied.-The music was not great and sounded really synthetic, but that also fit an alien film.-Basically if you can be entertained by documentaries where you don't buy into anything anybody ways, but are somewhat interested by it, Montauk Chronicles would be worth checking out on Netflix or anywhere else you can see it without paying for it.

Not worth the 3 year wait for this documentary! It should have been a LOT better, the 2 star rating was for Al & Preston, certainly NOT for Stewart Swerdlow, as after doing a bit of research on him, it's more likely than not that he's a conman/dis-informer/mind control slave PROGRAMMER!Google - "Stewart Swerdlow Scam" or "Stewart Swerdlow Conman"I've researched The Montauk Project a lot, I've watched possibly every YouTube video related to the subject, I've listened to all Michael Houtzager's audio interviews with Al Bielek, Preston Nichols, Duncan Cameron, Stewart Swerdlow & Larry James, & I've read all of Peter Moon's & Preston's books, & Stewart Swerdlow's too... This documentary just doesn't go deep enough into the rabbit hole, & I imagine for a first timer it would be difficult to grasp the full picture, they should of gone into more details about the project & the events, for example... The Nazi's, & the Nazi gold connection is never fully explained & mentioned, Duncan Cameron is only mentioned very briefly, the creature released at the end of the Montauk Project is only touched upon, & the pictures of it are never shown! Al & Duncan going to Mars & time travel is only mentioned VERY briefly too...!?!?! The connection to The Philadelphia Project is never mentioned either... There is so much missed out, it really can't be taken seriously for anyone researching the subject!!!The movie part was grossly exaggerated too, there's an alien scene, whereby a "grey alien" has fangs with saliva dribbling down from them, as if it's a vampire or something... I mean com'on...!?!? It's just insulting people's intelligence, & disgracing Al & Preston's accounts!!!Sounds petty, but it's attention to detail, as this is a massively important & horrifying story that needs to be taken seriously, & retold as accurately as possible for the survivors sake, & the unfortunate people who didn't make it!!!! Especially when the movie took so long to make...........In short, it was a big disappointment, it could have been done a LOT better, & does no credit whatsoever to the original story... It's nothing but a flashie attempt at a documentary trying to win an award, & make a few dollars off the back of Al & Preston's story at the same time... Don't waste your life... Save your money! Or buy beer instead........