Sadly Over-hyped

Crappy film

Blistering performances.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

The Three Acts: The initial tableaux: Boyfriend Gus, girlfriend Sally, and Sally's old friend Jake set out with metal detectors and the like to discover some missing gold in the Suffolk area in England. They stop at a pub which Gus had used as a base when he found a Roman coin sometime back. Fliers at the pub note UFO activity. Right. Just before they start the actual search, Jake mentions that a military helicopter has been circling the area near them for hours.They start in nearby accessible plowed fields. They find nothing, so the meandering continues.Delineation of conflicts: Gus is a jerk; Sally and Jake put up with him. Jake is a jerk; Gus and Sally put up with him. They do much of the search in the dark, and have some navigation difficulties in the woods (Rendlesham Forest). They are in a spot of danger from hostile forces that discover them.Resolution: Will the aliens get them?

This may just be, hands down, the worst film I have ever seen. There is nothing redeeming about anything in this project, and I don't say this often, but I honestly feel robbed of an hour and a half of my life.The plot could be summed up in 3 sentences on its Wikipedia page, if anybody could be bothered making one, the dialogue is bland and the camera work is a shoddy mess. A small voice inside of me cheered when there was a change of shot because hey, at least something, even in the most minor of ways, happened.I honestly feel bad for the people involved in this film. I wouldn't be surprised if the actors involved asked for their names to be taken out of the credits due to hoping nobody ever finds out they were in it, similar to how you wouldn't want anybody finding your baby photos. The acting was okay-ish but I say that because there's honestly no way to screw up characters they decided to write into the script. I wouldn't be surprised if they weren't acting, just reciting lines and being themselves. There was that part where one guy has to act weird by laughing and throwing a stick but even then it's not clear if that was intentional or not. I'd like to say that there are worse things to do for money, but honestly none of them come to mind right now. I know that sounds bold, but if you'd seen the film, you know you'd agree with me.I don't like people who criticize films in the cinema, especially at the debut, however if somebody stood up as the credits began and shouted "What the f--k was that sh-t?" and walked out, I would have envied that person for the rest of my life.I really do try to take whatever lesson I can from a movie, regardless of whether I liked it or not, so I can take some sort of knowledge from it. But after the non-existent plot, the boring whale sounds and "jump scares" (and by jump scares, I mean you could tell what they were meant to be, but they just failed at it) and to top it off, anti-climax after anti-climax, this film may just be the worst film in existence. I actually felt angry when it finished. I felt like I had the chance to do so many other things with my life in the time I saw that movie, and I saw it around 11pm during a f-----g blackout.Please, if you're considering watching this movie, watch something else.Anything else. It doesn't matter what. There is nothing more I would like to get across in this review is that under no circumstances, should anybody watch this film.I am giving this film 1 star because I cannot give it a 0.

OK, first off, this is a found-footage film. Don't like them? Then don't watch the film. A lot of criticism here simply because people just don't like/don't seem to understand the genre. You wouldn't criticise a rock song just because you don't like or understand rock music, would you? Same thing here, basically. It's been edited to look like it's unedited, "found footage". That's the genre. Yes, the camera-work is shaky. Yes, it is meant to look amateurish. That's the point. You're meant to think it wasn't made by a professional film crew but is just unedited footage shot by the characters in the film (who aren't meant to be a professional film crew) as the events occurred. It would be a bit weird if they'd just happened to shoot a perfectly orchestrated, steadily-filmed, scene-by-scene mainstream Hollywood movie completely by accident while they are under threat, when that wasn't even their intention in the first place.Secondly, the comparisons to Blair Witch. Well, it's a found-footage film set in a forest, so of course it's going to have similarities. It's set in a forest because the original Rendlesham UFO Incident took place in Rendlesham Forest...where the film is actually shot. Should it have been filmed a few miles further down the road at the pizza place, perhaps!? Maybe you'd have preferred that. And if it hadn't been a found-footage film, would you have hated it because it was a normal horror film set in a forest, just like the many hundreds of horror films already set in or around forests!? Too "derivative" still? Do you just have a problem with forests? Or horror films? Perhaps just steer clear of watching films based around either of those two "problem areas" then, in future.This is an excellent film that builds on the suspense from the first frame to the last. It switches effortlessly between the fear of the situation these people find themselves in to conveying the sense of wonder and awe (even joy) at the spectacle before them and all the unsolved mysteries that are out there in the world. It does this while staying true to the concept its based on...which does mean you'll be in for a bumpy ride (though the camera- work does settle down further into the film). If you miss it, you'll be missing out. Or alternatively, just go and sit in your room and listen to a type of music you hate, really loudly, then complain about it on the internet for hours.

This movie was terrible. I love a good alien flick, and this new "found footage" styling has its merits, but only when done well. This movie was neither entertaining or exciting. There were a couple of almost moments; however, it was mostly just a lot of waiting around for something to happen. There's a plot, but it's weak. There's an underlying element of alien spookiness, but it never really gets played out well. From the home camera footage to the lack of any real story within the plot to the overly anti-climatic ending, I basically kept thinking to myself it was like watching the travesty of the Blair Witch Project all over again. Except only with the hint of alien flair.