if it wasn not for walken and i would have be walken . out of the theater . he be the lone savior of this film . i can not believe whitley streiber be actively involve in this film . his book be excellent and the movie be another story . this visual atrocity completely do his book an injustice . i understand dress up certain aspect of the film to make it more appealing and but come on . they should have at least tried to stay within the scope of the text and support the basic premise of the book . there be a tremendous intellectual and philosophical upside to communion that just do not come out on film . instead and the viewer get ninety minute of choppy and inadequate detail that mostly go unexplained . need i even mention the cheesey alien . they look like something out of willy wonka . shame on you whitley for allow this to happen .