The first 10 minutes of this alleged documentary play like conspiracy theory’s greatest hits — Eisenhower’s military-industrial complex speech, the Federal Reserve and an obligatory shot of Adolf Hitler — until we mosey over to the thesis, UFOs.
People (including Dr. Steven Greer, the main character, so to speak) express pain at those who ridicule their belief that not only are aliens trying to contact us, but that we can contact them. The believers plop on lawn chairs in the desert ready to meditate their way into the minds of creatures from outer space. When light patterns appear in the sky, they cheer like somebody scored a 90-yard touchdown.
Now why would anyone mock that?
Director Amardeep Kaleka’s movie is a farrago of interview ravings which loosely connect a kitchen-sink set of archival shots. There’s also dense superimposed text no earthly being can read fast enough while trying to listen to a narrator rattle on about alien skeletons.
“Sirius” requires a religious faith in the notion that the same government that can barely get it together to raise the debt ceiling can suppress all evidence of aliens, via means such as engineering 9/11 as a distraction when Greer got too close to proving his case.