FBI wearing sunglasses at midnight.
They weren't FBI. Also, the Men in Black look is part of the classic UFO mythology the filmmakers were obviously trying to follow. You might as well ask why the aliens look like typical TV/movie aliens.
UFO reported as silent makes a load of noise at the end.
It was reported as silent in a newspaper story about a sighting where the UFO was at a high elevation over a town. In this movie, we hear it taking off from a few feet away. Have you ever seen a plane in the sky but not heard it? Do you think it was silent when it took off?
Fat FBI agent was very poorly written and acted out.
He wasn't an FBI agent. The fact that he neither showed a badge nor identified himself made that pretty clear. He's part of the Men in Black UFO Squad that the government supposedly maintains, according to the mythology. Apparently, Roy's phone was being monitored, and Joe's call was diverted from the "FBI North Texas Branch" to the MIB.
Since he's not FBI, there no reason he should look FBI. I agree that the character was a little too much like a small town sheriff to fit the idea of a Federal agent, but it's not like the filmmaker could afford to hire Lance Hendrickson.
Very little of interest in the build up to the money shot last 10 minutes.
I agree there wasn't a lot of build-up of tension, which is too bad, but I thought the character development, backstory, and gradual reveal worked pretty well. No, there was no "action". If you need constant action, this is not the film for you.
Little green goblins strong enough to drag woman into their ship.
Why not? They're strong for their size. Why is that improbable?
Man just falls over at the end, he doesn't seem to get shot or anything.
It's left open what happened to Joe, although most likely we're supposed to think some MIB agents sneaked up on him from behind and grabbed or choked him silently. (The silent grab is a common device in films, whether it's literally accurate or not.) I agree that was a bit weak, but it's not a fatal flaw.
Barn full of blatantly placed evidence, like the Roswell newspaper cuttings just on the wall for fun, making everything really obvious.
Yes, that was a key plot point that you either accept or don't. Of course it seems unlikely that a big pile of absolute proof of UFO theories, all stolen from the government, would be in some old guy's barn in rural Texas. It seems even more unlikely that the government knew about it, as the diverted phone call implies. But without that device, there would be no movie. If you rule out every movie, especially every FF movie, with an unlikely premise, you won't watch many horror films.
I do agree with you that the filmmakers laid it on a bit thick. I think we're supposed to infer that Grandpa Roy used to do something active, either in concert with the Feds or in a standoff of some kind with them. (The latter is unlikely because there can be only one winner in any clandestine standoff between a US citizen and the US government, and it isn't the citizen.) The decrepitude of the barn suggests that the had stopped doing so some time ago. Perhaps he was a "UFOlogist" who had gradually lost interest as he got older. We really don't know, but that's part of the point - we don't know any more than the characters do, which makes the events seem more real and more eerie.
They could get wifi internet in that house but no TV?
Just guessing, but maybe a mobile broadband card associated with their cell phone account? I have one, and it works fine wherever there's mobile phone service. Cell phone service or lack thereof is never mentioned, so it's a reasonable guess.
Car keys disappearing = absolutely lame.
Yes, an overused device in this type of movie. Unaware is unoriginal, like most horror films. That doesn't make it terrible.
I ended up rating this film much higher than it deserved simply because people here are so tough on it. I liked it a lot, thought the acting was fine - especially the male lead, who was quite believable as a stubborn "manchild". The dialog was reasonably believable - which is pretty good considering the actors obviously ad-libbed most of it - and the story was involving with good background and build-up. I don't watch FF movies for action or gore, so the lack of same did not bother me. I expect them to take a long time to get to the point because that's the way the genre usually works. Unaware made me feel that I was watching something that was really happening, which is the best thing a FF film can do.
Why do people go into no-budget indie horror with any expectations at all? Most such films are awful by the standards of regular movie-making. You either like them or you don't. If you don't like this type of movie, then don't watch it.
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