I'm giving "Zero Contact" a 2 because although I hated it and didn't finish the movie, it was creative. Not in a pleasant way, mind you, but it was different.
The film appears to have been filmed using security cameras, cell phones and laptop computers. It was done this way, presumably, because it was made during the COVID lockdown and so it uses non-traditional ways to make a movie. To say it was tough viewing the story because of how it was filmed is an understatement. To make it worse, the story is confusing, uses all sorts of jargon that many won't understand and is tedious.
The story is weird. A wealthy computer industrialist was working on some very strange experimental stuff and shortly before his death, he was ousted as chairman of the board of his company. Now, after his death, five people have received a package..instructing them about a zoom-type meeting. In this meeting they are instructed by computer to input passwords and activate something....but they really have no idea what it is...or if it might be dangerous.
As I said, the story is confusing and so tedious. And, I kept waiting for a payoff until finally I just gave up. A unique experiment, surely, but an unpleasant and disjoint one.
