UFO Sweden

 Denise (Inez Dahl Torhaug) is a troubled young woman whose UFO-obsessed dad disappeared while she was very young. And because this is a very specific type of movie, running through a series of foster homes means that she of course grows up to be a John Connor-style teen delinquent who's a wiz with computers: she's even introduced hacking a keypad with a modified gameboy.

 When her father's car somehow reappears, crashing into some farmer's barn in the middle of the night, she contacts UFO Sweden - a bunch of middle-aged nerds/UFO enthusiasts - to try and make sense of what's happening. And as it turns out, the government is... well, not in on it, exactly - it's never quite clear what anyone is doing in this movie - but there's a lady in meteorological services who seems to be tracking gravity disturbances, data that Denise recovers and uses to zero in on just what happened to her father all those years ago.

 With the conspiracy angle a complete mess, the movie is left needing some antagonists. This void is filled by a well-meaning police officer (Sara Shirpey) who gets it into her head that UFO Sweden is some sort of cult, and a turncoat within UFO Sweden who just doesn't seem to like Denise much and so decides to become evil as a result. Hey, I didn't say that there'd be good antagonists.

 The script - by director Victor Danell and Jimmy Nivrén Olsson - is piss-poor, stringing some dire science fiction conceits along a series of terrible, terrible decisions, arbitrary developments and inscrutable motivations. Events don't really make much sense as presented, and its characters don't come out looking great, either; Just how UFO Sweden ends up rallying behind Denise, for example, is a mystery, given how she tends to behave like a little shit and only acts nice when she needs something out of them. But, you know, she's the protagonist, so not only does that shit fly, I think it's supposed to be relatable?

 It reeks of script improvisation or extreme tinkering right up to the point where the cameras started rolling. 

 However, while the filmmaking is not truly great, it's very muscular and features some pretty excellent chases, car crashes, a couple of interesting special effect sequences and a few instances of great comedic timing. The acting is also good, with a well-developed central relationship between Denise and Lennart (Jesper Barkselius), leader of UFO Sweden and an old friend of her dad's. Most importantly, it sticks the landing with a strong emotional scene that capitalizes on all the good work Torhaug and Barkselius put in throughout the movie.

 And while the music (by Oskar Sollenberg and Gustaf Spetz) consists of the expected sci-fi synths, they're lovely sci-fi synths.

 Whether you'll like it or not will depend on your tolerance for the iffy script, and if you can be bought over by the film's surfaces; Despite a long runtime for what it is, it doesn't really drag too much, and there's always enough going on even if it doesn't make sense all that often. It's not actually a good movie - within this space, I'd direct you towards Jeff Nichol's Midnight Special for that - but... I don't know; While I rolled my eyes a lot during its runtime, a good ending can retroactively enhance any movie. It's all right.