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In a story about a terrible science fiction happening to a girl named Alex, a high-school senior student named Alex Lenny. Over the course of days, Alex faces encounters with mysterious lights that appear on the city in a strange and new way. But after a while these abilities turn to another turn, where rapid and dangerous abilities develop and become a childhood friend Sean Tyrell. In the end, there must be an investigation into what is going on. The authorities are targeting them and chasing them as officials try to investigate these strange and dangerous acts.
Pellerin and Scott are such deeply compelling performers that you are likely to forgive the familiarity of the lovers-on-the-run, first-contact narratives.
There are superpowers and moments of awe -- but the focus on Sean's character and his acceptance of change keeps everything here admirably down to earth.
"First Light" doesn't invent anything new, per se, but somehow, in splicing elements from other movies, it fails to achieve the emotional core of its own formula.
Lacking the flash of big-budget blockbusters or the originality of a uniquely imagined world instead leaves First Light trying to make the best of overly familiar sci-fi themes.
The actors, a pronounced sense of setting, and Stone's impressive style results in a film that's more memorable than most cynically tossed off young-adult cash grabs.