“First Light” begins with a cluster of UFOs flying low over a stretch of central California sky and ends with a shot that suggests writer-director Jason Stone has a much more ambitious project up his sleeve, if only someone will give him the money to direct it.
For audiences, it can be frustrating to realize you’re not watching a movie so much as a glorified audition piece — although that strategy did wonders for Gareth Edwards, who parlayed his alien-invasion melodrama “Monsters” into bigger things.
If producers are willing to hand first a “Godzilla” movie and then a “Star Wars” spinoff to such a director, then Stone’s calling-card stunt ought to generate its creator some kind of opportunity.Still, the question remains: What, if anything, does Stone have to add to the already oversaturated UFO genre, which had been pretty much exhausted by the time “The X-Files” went off the air nearly 16 years ago?
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