Very Exciting!

Rating: 8/10 (25 January 2008)

I recommend seeing this without knowing anything *except* that it is filmed POV Camcorder style like the Blair Witch Project. I sat in the back row and was fine, so you can stop reading now before you ruin it for yourself.
I thought this movie was extremely exciting, well acted, and very scary. Some of the scenes were so cleverly set up that I found myself grinning unintentionally.
I think that there are allusions to 9/11 and that they are absolutely necessary: after all, we have experienced 9/11 and we know exactly what it looks like when there is a disaster. This film captured that feeling. It brought back my own memories of that morning, trying to get out of Washington D.C. under the impression that we were being bombed, panic and false information everywhere. I don't think it was exploitive.
If you liked the escape scene in the most recent War of the Worlds where the aliens attack for the first time, you will love this. It's the intensity of that scene drawn out over an hour and a half.
I think we need more films like this which are willing to take risks.