Absolutely Fantastic

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

I didn't hate this film, but it disappointed me in scene after scene. The characters are pretty dull, the story is weak and progresses too slowly, the scares are too few and too cheap (largely jump scares and false flags), and the ending is stupid. People in found footage films tend to do silly things, and this can have an alienating effect on the audience. This film is a really good example of that trend. In the climax of the film, the characters end up doing unbelievably dumb things, which, of course, gets them killed. Also, in the true found footage manner, nothing is ever explained. It's very convenient for the screen writer, is it not, to be able to throw all kinds of silly and confusing things at the audience, and never have to explain them, because in the final scene the characters all end up dead, and there is no one left to explain anything. Ultimately the thrill of found footage is the ride itself, and this ride picks up pace only at the end, which is a huge detriment. Had the plot been intelligent and cleverly developed, this wouldn't have been the problem. Unfortunately, this was not the case.

I'm glad i watched this on BBC iPlayer and didn't waste a trip to the cinema. It was embarrassingly badly acted. The story line was promising but didn't deliver. The filming technique was disorientating and annoying. It was full of horror clichés but done badly. I didn't like the "unfriendly locals" stereotype. The Tech character was an excruciating caricature of a Tech bloke. It would have worked better if we could have seen the wires and the whole thing had been filmed as a spoof documentary.

So-called "found footage" movie making annoys me. It is disorientating, head ache inducing and, in my experience has absolutely NOTHING in its favour. It is completely repellent. The idiotic, too close framing and jittering do absolutely nothing to make a movie more convincing or "feel real". Everything about this ill-considered fad is awful and absolutely nothing is good. After only a couple of minutes, I was tempted to walk out and, having sat through this boring garbage to the bitter, pointless end, I really wished I had. Putting the jittery camera work completely to one side, the "story" was so weak and unconvincing as to be barely existent. I didn't give a flying one for any of the characters and the end was a total flop. There were no saving graces. I have seen a huge number of horror films and this was one of the most disappointing, mainly because hopes were raised too high by overly enthusiastic, self-indulgent scribes who are far too easily impressed by pretentious, vacuous, utterly pointless nonsense.

I really liked this movie. Well, until the last few minutes anyway. Is an ending that makes sense or at least one that fits too much to ask? The tension build up was great and the character development was decent. *****Spoilers***The story centers around a couple of guys apparently hired by the Vatican to either approve or dispute the claim of a miracle. One is pretty much a nonbeliever and the other one apparently has faith Issues. A third eventually shows up and the investigation begins. There is a slow build up with some genuinely creepy moments. Several jump scares thrown in for good measure, and a nutty priest that wants to believe a little too much. The story is actually very entertaining until I get to the end where they are running through the cave and the writers just ran out of ideas. It is honestly like they ran out of time and someone said "Hey guys we have to finish this, we are out of film. " and then just literally threw some random nut-ball ending on to what was, up until that point, a pretty decent found footage movie. I get that in a found footage movie it is implied the characters don't make it, but a supernatural stomach? Really? Oh well, outside of the last few minutes it was a really decent movie and I would like to see more from the creators of this project.