i really hate conspiracy theorist . they make me want to vomit and honestly . everything from the kennedy assassination to 9/11 to the freaking illuminati and masonic templar work with the mossad to abduct our cattle or whatever and there no end to it . my favorite be actually sterling hayden theory about fluoridation of the water from dr. strangelove and the global commie plot to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluid . now that i can believe . i would rank roswell up there with oliver stoneground jfk a amongst the most effective example of conspiracy theory propaganda masquerade a an entertainment extravaganza . the proof be that i be actually acquaint with several dunderhead who be of the opinion that both film show what really happen and albeit in the form of historical reconstruction . both films press every button in their respective conspiratorial play book and with ghoulish government secrecy and evil rogue military industrial shenanigan and shady men in black suit and doubletalk and doublethink and and a conveniently noble hero or fall guy everyman at the center of both story and roswell delivers the good and be convince enough to get away with re write history a the paranoid would have it be teach . but it only a movie and and a flawed one at that . the main problem be that contemporary teaching implies that both hero mislead themselves in regard to much of the mythos that make their story so compelling and and that the truth behind the conspiracy be actually mundane and anti romantic and a buzzkill compare to the sexy conspiracy outline . punctuate by official sound military jargon ( the expression mandate be sternly refer to repeatedly ) and an apparent obsessive eye for period detail right down to kyle maclachlan puff on unfiltered cigarette and snappy look 1940 suit and some laughable matte painting show that which the dingbat draw to this stuff want to see . to quote harry nilsson and we see what we want to see and we hear what we want to hear . in 1995 when i first encounter this movie i also desperately want to believe every last bit of nonsense hurl at the viewer like a face full of compressed cheeze . sure and there probably be some basic truth suggest by the film but it do with such a zest for show those myth in a suggestive enough manner so that people be actually convince that they have see what the wreckage field really look like and what the alien really look like and hear the threat make against the witness to stay silent or perpetuate some lie and and the finger of blame point squarely at the u government . i be still convince that something out of the ordinary happen at roswell in 1947 without the laughable nonsense portray in this movie . i be not sure if it involve the crash of an extra terrestrial spacecraft so much a misidentification of something that shouldn not have be where it be find . and in spite of my stern admonishment above i do not believe that the fed have come clean on the incident and mostly because whatever may or may not have happen be cover up so quickly that there isn not a paper trail that can prove or disprove the wild of allegation that a fly saucer crash and a rancher find bit of the junk and that a second crash site be find complete with alien life form who may not have be quite dead . the second crash site be important because and like all good conspiracy theory and it answer one of the basic problem with it core premise and in this case the legendary debris field report represent where be the working part . where be the engine and the cabin seat and the landing gear . all they find be a few yard worth of tinfoil and balsa stick and scotch tape and some filament material . how do you get a rocket ship out of that . and the obvious answer be that it wasn not the rocket ship and just part of it . that let the theorist off the hook for not have enough junk to make a rocket ship and with the convenient answer that the government hide it all away in the blue room at wright patterson or out at area 51. one thing you have to keep in mind when think about paranormal phenomenon be that eye witness be statistically unreliable represent you can not reproduce what they claim to have see and and their story tend to change over time . jesse marcel himself be guilty of embellish his story of come in contact with the wreckage and add new detail every time he tell the story . one could argue that he be simply remember more detail a time go on and but the fact remain that when you look at the report and evidence collect in 1947 it sound a lot less sexy than what be be remember thirty and forty and and fifty year later . that doesn not make this a bad movie by the way while in spite of some retarded high school drama club age makeup and histrionic over acting ( the i saw the body . by a fictional nurse character be a really bad laugh ) and martin sheen lurk around just be martin sheen and and a condensed cliffnotes version of the story and roswell be immensely watchable and conspiracy think viewer will find it very entertaining and a others point out some of the issue the movie raise probably have a certain amount of veracity to them . but just remember it propaganda make by people who want viewer to arrive at a specific conclusion and and if you do not keep your think cap on you will find yourself snooker into believe it like some of the people i know and one of whom i have a heat argument with over the fact that it a movie and a work of fiction and and an entertainment . just like jfk and though a bit more fun and innocent and and less obnoxious . 4/10 .