Don't believe the hype

Rating: 4/10 (27 January 2008)

The hype made this a must see movie. So when this movie came out i was eager on seeing it and even convinced my wife to come. I even ignored it when people offered me illegal copies of it. I wish i didn't.
I think the high scores are from people who downloaded cam versions where the movement of the cam counters the movement of the actors camera so they have seen a steady image.
I knew this was a type of blairwitch kind of filming so that wasn't a surprise. But the fact that the person filming during the whole nightmare lets the viewer believe to be a bit uncertain about operating the camera, makes you wonder why he bothers to haul that thing along all the time. If the reason was (it isn't mentioned in the dribble itself so we must guess here) that he wanted to document the whole thing, why doesn't he do that? Why does he seem to miss the most obvious shots? If this person would have been an art student or a student of journalism it would have been more believable.
It was a great idea, the hype before this movie worked wonders (the movie industry now has a script to hype even the biggest b movie) but it didn't work out. Luckely we had some rented movies at home so the night wasn't a total waste.