Clever, but still not enough to make it great.

Rating: 6/10 (20 January 2008)

I would never consider myself a critic for movies, but just someone that enjoys them, and goes to them on the premise that I want to be entertained and see something cool.
Clever filming and creature design weren't enough for this movie to be worth the time or money I invested in it. It can't be helped to draw parallels to Blair Witch Project in terms of buzz or how it was filmed. As one user said before this was indeed the better movie, but I felt cheated. If anything could be learned from the home video feel that both movies have it is this - it is a gimmick. It really didn't add to the movie. I felt that it would have been considerably more interesting to have the home movie be and introduction to the main movie - cut to a recovery team. To Aliens to you? Okay... then perhaps something else. I wasn't the only one that was irritated after spending the time to watch this. I have never heard as much cussing at the end of a movie as I did after watching this all the way through. The crowd was clearly as displeased as I, and I tend to have a bit of a snobbish taste for movies, and think tailoring a movie to a test crowd is stupid, but it left me wondering what those people thought.
In the end great idea - in fact clever, but clever can't carry the movie in this instance. I felt nothing for the characters, in fact was waiting for them to get wiped out by the beasties, and was disappointed they didn't. Ending was too Blair Witch, and those that saw this you have to admit it was. The only thing I thought was worthwhile was getting to see the Ironman trailer, but still wasn't worth eight dollars to see. Rent it, don't buy it. I see no re-watch value in this.