Not THAT Original (Achtung Spoilers)

Rating: Null/10 (9 January 2002)

First of all, I have to say that BWP is a milestone in the movie industry. To compare it with Citizen Kane is probably too much, but they have at least one similarity: both has been claimed to have invented new concepts in moviemaking, both are not that original. Many techniques credited to Kane as it being the first film to use them have been used in other movies before. BWP, too, is not very original in the idea, because The Last Broadcast precedes it by a year. For some reason, though (I suspect wrong marketing strategy), TLB never came to be known so widely as BWP, and so people say BWP is a pioneering movie.
Now about the ending, I would have to warn for spoilers here because you're not going to see what you expect to see. The movie has developed fear from the beginning by not doing what most other horror movies normally do: show the monster. And if the ending had been you seeing the Blair Witch, it would indeed have been an anticlimax and killed the whole movie altogether.

Last words: even though this film would never make it to my top ten favorite list, it does make it to my list of must-see movies. If you plan to see it in a movie theatre bring a plastic or paper bag in case you wanna throw up. Not because you see some ugly monster, but from the jittery cameras.