What is going on with the ratings on here? 25%? Did a hatemob rate this film? It's an effective homage to 80s sci-fi flicks. Nothing more. Nothing less. But certainly not 25% "worst movie ever" material. 7.2 on imdb, 78 on metacritic. Let's just say professional critics are usually a bit more trustworthy than trakt users...

There are certain movies that I love and completely understand why others wouldn't like them. Then there are movies where I simply can't understand how someone could sit through it and not be affected by it in any way. This is one of those movies

This movie starts in media res and has a slow build up. The acting is great, the cinematography is great and the story makes you think. Sure the pacing is slow but if you like old sci-fi movies you won't be disappointed.

I enjoyed this film, it had a feel of old classics like ET etc

Dull , slow and boring. Nothing interesting was happening and the whole structure fails upon the mystery.

The problem with the movie is not that it leaves you with unanswered questions and many things unexplained, it's that you never care to find out. The movie is over and I honestly couldn't care less about anything.

A very weird movie. It makes no sense that those "other humans" forced the family on a travel, that would risk the family's lives and result in the exposure of those other beings.
And besides that making no sense, the movie offered quite a boring plot about this unnecessary travel.

Story: superb. Acting: superb. Movie overal: average.
Reason for the overal rating is that so many is left untold. The Ranch is just randomly depicted, the whole sect stuff is completely undescribed and has no meaning for the story. Why was the kid taken there and adopted? Obviously mom and dad didnt want to loose him, so why take him there then?
And as for questions.... where is the start of the movie? Where is the end of this movie? Why did the story about mom end differently than about dad and Lucas?
I really enjoyed the middle part of the movie, but this story clearly misses a huge part at the start of the movie, where the characters should have gotten some form and some kind of motivation about why they do what they do.

Clearly the story is very interesting indeed and it's a great basis for a good story. But the movie failed in many ways. Really too bad...

The potential is sky high for Midnight Special and the cast is great. I really enjoyed the movie but there is a very painful lack of depth. I feel like this could've been the movie of the year and it just didn't quite get there.

The soundtrack on this movie is epic. I've been listening to it long before watching the movie, which likely helped me like the movie more than others might have.

The whole time was expecting something to happen, then we get to the end of this snoozefest and the ending is just SO DUMB. This whole movie is stupid beyond words. Nothing is explained. How this kid ended up on this world born to normal parents? Who are the aliens? If the cult could find them in a random motel, how come the FBI couldnt?

I could take some heat for this but I liked "Midnight Special" better than Jeff Nichols's other Michael Shannon fronted film, "Take Shelter". Shannon plays quietly tense better than anyone right now and the few moments he shows his love for his son are worth the price of a theater ticket.

This is understated Science Fiction. It's also a chase movie with an otherworldly mystery driving it, but for a movie about a special child being pursued by both a cult and the government, it's surprisingly slow-moving. I'd bet a good number of people that have seen this have been frustrated by its pace. It's also likely that it's ambiguous conclusion will leave some viewers angry. Me...I like filling in the blanks so no issues here.

The film slowly reveals the mystery behind the boy's powers and for me it was very satisfying. I loved what the little boy was all about and the fact that many people witnessed the amazing event. I was also very impressed with the gas station scene. The dialog was also enjoyable whenever Adam Driver was on-screen. His character provided some lighter moments in an otherwise very serious film.

Uh, even after sitting for nearly two hours watching this, I'm not even sure if I saw the whole movie. It felt like we jumped in after everything already occurred. They introduced characters that ultimately didn't matter. They never explained the boy's powers, or why they were sporadically erupting from him. I mean did he cause the meteor shower? What does the light from his eyes emit, that makes others want to gaze into it? What was this movie's point???