Alien at the Movies

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It’s “Searching” meets “Unfriended” meets “Catfish” when a British journalist goes undercover to break a big story on ISIS recruiting young European women for their terrorist cause. Pretending to be a recent Islam convert & creating a fake social media profile, she connects with a charming man in Syria who tries to woo her into joining him. Will she be taken in by his sweet talk? Will she slip up & blow her cover? If you can’t stand trying to reading busy computer screens, you might want to avoid this film because all you get. It’s an interesting cat & mouse game but who is going to catch who?

Alien gives it 2½ “deception & exposure” stars out of 4.