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This 'documentary' is either brilliant or terrible, depending on
your
position: If you are a gullible True Believer and have no critical
thinking ability, then this film (which is very professionally shot,
edited, and post produced) will be a delight.

If however, you are even a moderately rational type with a
healthy analytic ability and a little intelligence, then Fastwalkers
is a load of nonsense. Period. And if you are the latter, you
probably
could have guessed that anyway.

Right at the beginning - over ominous music - there is a caption
that
informs the viewer that since 1947 (1947 is like Christmas day to
UFO
groupies) 150 million people have witnessed UFO's and there have
been
"20,000 documented landings". It should have read, there have been
20,000 alleged landings because, there is not a single shred of
evidence anywhere in the world of a genuine extraterrestrial
landing.
Ever. This is a fact, and facts are things that Ufologists are
uncomfortable with, or that they simply ignore. Right off the bat,
Fastwalkers starts off with a piece of misinformation.

The next caption states that a Roper poll reports 70% of the US
population believes the government is hiding UFO data from the
public.
So what? If a poll had been taken in 1200 AD, it would have found
100%
of the world's population believed the Earth was flat.

The first interviewee to appear is Stanton Friedman, a shameless
charlatan, liar, and self promoter, and the High Priest of the
UFO movement, who states that "we're dealing with the biggest story
of the millennium..."

Friedman is a very good instructional example of the fact that
academic achievement is not evidence of rationality and critical
thinking ability. Or perhaps I should have just said, honesty.

A succession of other UFO luminaries then appear and basically say
the
same thing: UFO's are alien space vehicles and the government is
hiding the fact. This is so stale by now, you would have thought
that Ufologists might have the imagination to have updated this
tired
old myth. Or perhaps, to have even presented some evidence for
their claims.

Jim Marrs, the author of the laughably absurd Alien Agenda has a
good
deal of screen time to spew his own particular brand of nonsense
(mainly involving a mix of government conspiracy/secret earth
elites/alien bases on Earth, etc.) How can you take a film like
this seriously, when its main cast are proven quacks?

Halfway through Fastwalkers, there is an interview with a
particularly
annoying English "Abductee/Participator" called Steven Jones
(suffering
from hysterical inadequacy syndrome)who gushes and beams as he
recounts
his 'abduction'.

Fastwalkers soon collapses into the typical New Age Aquarian garbage
that is typical of UFO fare, and of course, offers not a shred of
credible evidence - in fact no evidence whatsoever - to support it's
case. All it offers is hearsay, ridiculous stories, and the opinion
of
the Ufology 'experts', who have books and DVD's to sell, all paid
conferences to attend, and bills to pay.

I give Fastwalkers 1/20, and that's for the good lighting, excellent
audio, and nice production values, and, because I downloaded it for
free from Google Video. As for the content, don't even bother.

by
Sir Orgone Naramche MBE