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90 minutes of wandering through a jungle... (SPOILERS)

posted 12 years ago by jk90us
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WOW! This is horrible even by Asylum standards.

90 minutes of wandering through a jungle searching for aliens — but they NEVER show the damn aliens! Every once in awhile the soldiers just shoot bad CGI cartoon bullets into the trees while someone (we assume the aliens) shoot something that looks like bottle rockets(!) back at them. And then it ends with no ending at all. Like Blair Witch (which is like "Lord of the Rings" when compared to this garbage), it just suddenly stops with no explanation.

It reminds me of another god-awful, no budget alien film called "Infection" by Albert (PEE YOO) Pyun. That is merely 90 minutes of footage taken from a dashboard cam in some cop car while it drives through the woods. YAWN!

Maybe if the semi attractive Chelsea Vincent had stripped naked in this thing at some point it would have least been worth two stars. But no such luck. No nudity. No violence. This film has not been rated by the MPAA because if they had it would have been PG at best. This thing could air on Disney with no edits whatsoever.

Not even worth a dollar at the RedBox (which is where I rented it). The studio (it makes me gag to call Asylum a studio) paid more for the DVD cover art than they did for the production of this amateurish tripe. School kids on YouTube do a better job than this.

jk90

[–] B-MovieDork 12 years ago

I couldn't agree with you more. There was seriously a full hour of a bunch of morons firing their guns blindly into the trees. And then nothing. The "reveal" at the end was the most pointless, uninspired, tacked-on bull honky I've ever seen. I thought the lead actress was likable and did her best with the godawful mess of a script (if there indeed was one) she was given. Her talent was wasted in this atrocity of a horror movie. Yet another green loogie spat in the face of not just fans of the found footage genre, but fans of cinema in general.

[–] offsprng_girl 12 years ago

The alien is shown for a brief second when they're running out of the ship. It's peeking out the door. http://i47.tinypic.com/2eapeea.jpg

Yeah it wasn't a great movie, but it's Asylum for God's sake.

[–] PACman66 12 years ago

A cinematic load of wet defecation.
I love "found footage" films... But this film is THE worst one I'd ever seen.
A horrific waste of time & money.
Pure monotony... And utterly boring.

Trust me,
Swan
My, you're nosey, aren't you?

[–] ladydesdemonna 12 years ago

What a disappointment! Thing is the film had potential. There was obviously a pretty good budget, the acting (except for the commander) was decent, and premise wasn't bad. Then it all went to hell. Running and shooting. Do we get to see what they're shooting at? NO! Do we find out why it was following them harmlessly for a while? NO! Is there a reason why the female archaeologist stole that skull? NO!

Just run, shoot, run, shoot, die, die, shoot some more. Ugh. And the constant shaking camera gave me motion sickness.

It's all fun and games until someone gets caught. Then it's larceny.

[–] B-MovieDork 12 years ago

"Yeah it wasn't a great movie, but it's Asylum for God's sake."

This is true!! But in The Asylum's defense, I will say I enjoyed Paranormal Entity (even with the obvious visible FX goofs). Also kind of liked Alien Abduction

[–] janisvstr 12 years ago

"No nudity. No violence."

Amazing how many people are missing the point of this movie. 99% of it sucks, but that 1% at the end is solid gold, for an "asylum".

The film ends WITH an explanation.

[–] Digitalimage 12 years ago

A tribute walkabout with no stops at any john ...

They shoulda written a script for army conscripts concerning the topic of deficating in the bushes and allocated both he and she versions , then one woulda leanred something from this bush wackin

givemebackthelast1136.789wastedsecondsofmylife----Ididnotneedtoseethat,Ivotethumbsupthismovie!