Extraterrestrial

The problem with this film, like so many other straight to digital release movies, is the budget. Reading the synopsis, one couldn't possibly expect to see a groundbreaking film. I mean, it's the hundred millionth alien film released in the past couple decades. Yet the writers, for some reason, thought they were up to the challenge. It is apparent that the filmmakers were relying on their ability to take a genre that has been done to death and make it their own, utilizing vivid, amped up action sequences to showcase their aliens. The problem is that there was obviously no money for that. In the age of the billion dollar Hollywood blockbuster, any sci-fi film that relies solely on visuals and action sequences must have the necessary dollars to make it look good. There were so many moments that were desperately trying to send a chill down the spine of the viewer, but fell short solely because of it's inability to look like more than a SyFy network movie.

But something tells me these guys, like most Hollywood filmmakers, simply did not care. The goal is always the same. Get the money, get it done, get it out. Forget the rest. If you're looking to continue the cycle of junk film, made with speedy preparation, while lacking any and all quality, then perhaps this movie is for you. Bon Appetit.

Well what to say about this one? I have to laugh again when I see the ratings or read the reviews on IMDb. A lot of haters, and I seriously don't get why. I start wondering if my taste of movies is that bad because most of the time when people hate it I love it. But then again I'm not the only weirdo because my wife liked it as well. Okay the actors might not be the best ones you will ever see, even though I don't think they gave us a bad performance. On the contrary I enjoyed the acting. But what I enjoyed the most was the story. Very entertaining to watch, everything I search for when I want to watch a movie about aliens. Suspense, evil aliens, conspiracy theories, all ingredients were there to make it a nice movie. And that's what it was to me, a nice movie. I will watch it again in the future. To all the haters I can only say, take a chill pill.

I rarely review on here, but I thought this movie was worth leaving some comments. We have had something of a resurgence of alien/abduction type movies in the last few years, however very few I found any desire to review.

With this movie, the opening scenes try to grip us from the beginning, as we discover a girl being pursued by something that we cannot see, in what appears to be the middle of nowhere.

The movie tries to move along throughout at a continuous pace, although has some moments where it slows down for some character development. Mostly it keeps you watching by moving along at a steady pace.

It attempts to switch at certain times to the 'run for your life, serial killer on the loose' type modern horror movie moments, keeping up the tension. It is not the same kind of tension as found in a slasher movie though, where the enemy is always visible, but probably more like the tension in the like of "The Entity" (1982) - because we know something is there but with almost supernatural knows who knows what it can and will do next.

The directing style is a throwback to that of such movies such as "Communion" (1989), "Intruders" (1992) and "Fire In The Sky" (1993) and shows such "Alien Nation" (1989-1990) and "The X-Files" (1993-1996 episodes). Anyone who is of an age to remember and appreciate these these should similarly enjoy this movie, although you will find most of the ideas have been 'borrowed' from elsewhere.

The overall movie may be considered an attempt to bring these ideas and an appreciation for this directing style to a younger generation - most who like nothing more than the cheap thrill of the modern scare will be bored with this, but those with a few brain cells will hopefully be encouraged to investigate some of the older horror that is available just a little more after watching this.

The film takes us to the common young characters in a trip to the woods. Aliens who traveled the deep space with incredible technology and still have no clothes and just wanted to terrorize people. If they were always angry about humans, there were no humans.

The film has some nice pictures and scenes, but the characters are horrible and kind of empty, nothing build in a sense of creating the need to know more, everything is predictable. Sounds from the same sample pack of Transformers.

I liked the image of the film, some visuals, light, places, but the story, the characters and the sound effects were just wrong to me, in the way of they may have created something deeper. I don't know what else to say here, because I don't understand how they can create such beautiful images and destroy that with a horrible story, and fail realizing that the story sucks. Or maybe they knew...

I scored the film quite highly because I genuinely enjoyed about 80% of, but I went into it knowing it wasn't exactly going to be a groundbreaker.

Without wanting to give too much away, it incorporates a lot of UFO mythology and people who are into that kind of thing will probably enjoy it, as I did. The special effects are very well done, for a film without a huge budget and the UFO's are genuinely ominous and 'other - worldly'.

The plot isn't too bad really, it ends in an interesting way that you probably won't expect and there are some scenes in the last 20 minutes that are actually quite spectacular.

It's bad points though - the actors are a bit annoying and not very endearing. The main couple are quite nice and their story plays out well, but everybody else in it seems to just be there to add filler to the plot. One of the guys in it is actually very annoying, from start to unfortunate end.

It's all a bit loud and flashy and over the top in parts as well. The musical score is definitely not up to a very high standard in my opinion.

I think it deserves a little more respect than some reviewers have given it - but not much. ;-)