The ugly love child of the blair witch and godzilla

Rating: 3/10 (22 January 2008)

This movie may be remotely enjoyable as long as you can turn your brain off. Unfortunately, I couldn't.
The characters were so unbelievably bad, and the worst was definitely the camera man. He was somewhere between quagmire (without the funny) and dude, where's my car. The writer couldn't have made the characters any more linear and cliché.
The story is exactly what you expect. Even if you haven't seen the movie but have seen the trailer, imagine what it is going to be like and how it is going to end, and you are probably pretty close. For a movie that is supposed to be mysterious, there are no real surprises here, and nothing terribly original.
The first person amateur video gimmick is so tastelessly done. The most annoying part is they feel the need to explain everything that is going on. I am pretty sure they are counting on an audience with a low IQ. Blair Witch broke some ground with this technique, and director Matt Reeves must have decided that they got it right the first time and there was no need to build on it. There are so many similarities that you can pretty much count on hating it if you didn't like The Blair Witch.
Finally, the movie is completely unrealistic. I am not talking about the monsters, I am talking about very simple details that it is not easy to ignore. For example, the beginning clearly states that it is on an SD card, yet the movie keeps cutting back and forth over footage that was supposedly filmed over. Also, apparently helicopter crashes are a lot safer than most people would guess.
Like I said before, the movie might work if you can simultaneously block all of these things. The rating it got here on IMDb absolutely boggles my mind. I can only assume an 8/10 is the new 5/10.