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Or, to be perfectly honest, they are running the film industry.

Actually, that's a typo - it's not running, it's ruining.

Another Asylum lunatic fringe production that adds nothing to any genre - it tries to be found footage, but misses the point, it tries to be horror, but misses the point, it tries to be scifi, but misses the point..indeed the only point it manages to successfully achieve and surpass, is the point when you realise that that's another 90minutes of your life that the Asylum have stolen from you.

And that's depressing.

I'm curious as to what future blockbuster they were trying to mimic - I sincerely hope it wasn't Prometheus, because if it was, the fail factor is off the chart - it's like they read a précis of the prequel to Alien, and tried to pre-empt what Ridley Scott was going to make. And failed with such catastrophic ease, that it's actually criminal to try and market this movie to the general public.

If it wasn't Prometheus, then I'm left with the only other option, and that being that it was an Asylum original movie. And that's wrong on so many levels.

The story itself was all over the place, I can't even begin to try and explain the mess the writer came up with. First they were doing an exercise in the jungle, then they were chasing "unknowns", then they were rescuing archaeologists (which, when you see the cut away scenes, will make you cringe), then were finding alien spacecraft in the middle of the said jungle whilst expressing not one bit of amazement at the discovery...

Casting selections looks to have been made with blindfold at the end of a drunken night out with the boys, whilst they were decent enough actors, the mish mash ethnicity just didn't work coupled to the abysmal script and director-less production - all added together to leave us with a dogs dinner of a movie.

Still, the fireworks throughout the tail end of the film were pretty.

Oh wait a minute....I just realised....it's a true story, and really happened...and they're all still missing...

Ah well - that's okay then.

In short - watch this movie at your own risk - a little piece of you may wither up and float away if you do.....

1/10

I don't like the Asylum, I haven't seen a lot of their movies, but most of the movies I have seen I have absolutely hated. Transmorphers, the Day the Earth Stopped, Titanic 2, Monster, all bad. They made two movies, that weren't horrendous. One was Paranormal Entity which was actually not a bad movie, it was flawed, but descent. Gacy House wasn't really good, but at least it was watchable. So their only two somewhat descent movies were found footage movies, so maybe Alien: Orgin, which is also a found footage movie would be OK.

It isn't, this is not only the worst Aylum movie ever made, but it's the worst Found Footage movie ever made. It's a rip off of Prometheous, and it has one scary part. One scary part, and the scene underwater wasn't too bad. That's it.

Most of this movie is just walking, which wouldn't be too bad, except that while walking, there is also no talking. Nothing happens in this movie, for like 50 minutes it's just walking with no diolougue. And then the rest of the time is just repetitive. I mean it, the last half hour of this movie follows the same pattern. Shoot, run, shoot, run, shoot, run. It get's very repetitive and very boring.

Alien Orgin is the Asylum's worst movie, the worst found footage movie ever made, and one of the worst movie's I've ever seen.

Well that's about 90 minutes of my life I don't get back! Truly the worst movie I have ever seen! I picked it up at Redbox and boy do I feel ripped off. I've been better entertained by watching workers paint the stripes on a crosswalk! I hope the director has a good day job, this movie is going to cost him any respect he might have thought he had when it comes to making movies. My only recourse is to come here and warn others not to waste their time. The acting, the direction, the video, the sound, the plot. How does a movie like this even get produced? I've seen my share of bad movies, but this is so bad it is an epic FAIL. The production company The Asylum Home Entertainment must have some really drunk investors who like losing money. This movie makes me want to burn my DVD player in case it is now infected.

If you read the reviews here and still rent the movie than congratulations, you're even dumber than the producers. In fact, I've been more entertained by the people here writing reviews. They in fact could have done a better job writing this movie.

I hate people on-line that give bad reviews and list their reasons and go on about how bad something is however I feel I need to express my feelings about the film. Basically do not bother watching this film it was so bad I had to watch it to the end just to make sure it was rubbish till the end. I understood what the director was trying to do, the build up of tension and the slow scenes that made the viewer wonder what was going to happen but that was the main problem for me was the fact nothing did happen. If the last 15 minuets of the film was done right it could of turned the film around and it possibly could be amazing if it did have a good ending but it didn't. This film did not deliver. Sorry but I felt that this film wasted my time.

If you enjoy watching soldiers endlessly run through the woods, this movie is for you! There are lots of scenes of soldiers running through the woods. Sometimes their running is frantic, sometimes very cautious. Sometimes they shoot their guns. But usually they are just running through the woods. You will feel like you are right there running with them. In the heat of the pursuit of forest running. Sometimes they see something and stop and check it out. But for the most part they stick to running through the woods. I have always wanted to join the army but will think twice about it now. I had no idea there would be so much running around. A great flick to watch if you enjoy soldiers running. A must see!

I watched Alien Origins with an open mind and low expectations, but I do agree with other commentators that the film was just awful. The poster was cool and the scenery but that's it. In fact, I'd go as far to say that Alien Origins beats Titanic II(Transmorphers was rubbish as well) as the absolute worst film that The Asylum has ever produced. Alien Origins looks cheap, with choppy camera work, some of the worst special effects I've seen for any movie and footage that is clumsily incorporated and adds little if anything to the atmosphere. The aliens look fake and have no menace whatsoever to them. Another big problem was the story. The tone itself is all over the place, you are never sure whether it is trying to be mystery or sci-fi, in both those elements it fails abysmally, never being suspenseful or thrilling enough. It is also lethargic in pace, and never recovers throughout, and there are even times where next to nothing happens. The music and sound effects are generic, with little creepiness, in fact when something does happen they make it all too obvious, which I dislike intensely regarding movies. The dialogue is stilted and aimless, while the characters are stereotypical and have no likability or development to them. The acting is terrible, the actors show no passion or sense of what's going on and all too often it feels as though they were not even directed. All in all, Alien Origins is junk. 1/10 Bethany Cox

Now, I'm not saying this film was boring..... I'm just saying that I've seen more action in a Care Bears film.

It took 50 minutes before anything remotely interesting even happened, and even that was pretty bad.

The explosions looked like they just set off a bunch of fireworks.

The only interesting thing about the film was the scenery, the country of Belize is beautiful.

The acting was sub-par and the graphics were horrible. They kept switching between black and white, colour, night vision, and infrared. My guess is to distract you from how horrible the film is. If you're looking for an intelligent film, look elsewhere. If you want a film to put you to sleep, then by all means, watch it.

Well....I can't conceive how anyone could make a worse movie! Too bad they don't have a minus no star rating. If that was the case I'd giver it a minus .000000000000001 Star.

I won't give the plot away but it apparently low budget. Actors/actresses are mediocre at best. Filming was shabby at best and many attempts were apparently made to heighten suspense. But that's what they were...attempt.

I don't want to give anyone the wrong opinion but there are very few movies I have seen that I was as displeased with.

I realize I have a 1,000 words but that isn't enough to describe my experience watching it. I can summarize by saying I'd rather watch a buzzard puke.

I enjoyed this movie quite a bit! I read through the reviews and can not believe that it is being called the worst movie ever and a waste of time. This was very good and I actually thought while watching it that it was going to be another "Predator" movie.

Sure the special effects were bad...but look past that and the story is really neat. This really reminded me of movies from the 1980's with limited special effects and OK acting. Honestly, this was on par with a lot of older movies and you will really like it of you can get past the low budget special effects.

My kids loved the movie and my 10 and 6 year old children were often times trying to hide behind their arms and blankets.

If you are a fan of old sic-fi and old horror/suspense movies, you will most likely enjoy this movie.

The movie is horrible, I got a head ache from the constant shaking of the camera. The plot was very drawn out for no reason, the movie was %50 running around with the camera shaking for no reason. save your $2 and don't watch this failure flick.

This would have been a cool short film. If they minus all the running around camera shaking mess. Unfortunately I wasted an hour before I stopped watching it. Its not like there was going to be a surprise ending. The ending is told at the beginning of the movie.

Time that I could have rather watched the flies buzzing around the living room, maybe even pick one and cheer it on to do the most laps. Either way anything would have been better then watching this movie. It has earned the failure of the month award from me. The name is not even relevant to the movie. The movie name is Alien Origins, but it doesn't say anything about any type of origin. I could understand if it showed a 2 minute clip of their home world, or something, but NO, they failed.

I watched this movie stupidly thinking it was one of the Alien vs Predator line of movies. God was I wrong. This is arguably one of the worst movies I've ever watched. It gives a 5 minute clumsy attempt at movie making by pimpled prepubescent geeks a real run for their $5 budget. The show was probably shot on a $100 budget and about $80 was put into designing a real kickass poster. Then the director though," Hmm. Another $10. What can I do with that?? Well, let me just grab a bunch of desperate superstar wannabes and offer them a shot at stardom if they each contribute another $100 to my budget! Brilliant!!" Well unfortunately it's quite likely the investment put in by the wannabe superstars won't be paying off anytime soon. The director should be thrown in the slammer for grievous waste of viewers' time and irreversible brain rot. This movie is not worse your time or money for rental. Avoid it like the plague even if someone pays you to watch it. (Unless you're in the mood for exchanging some brain cells for a couple of bucks)

Another found footage film makes it's entrance in an already crowded market.

The idea of Alien Origin is sound, very "predator" like and with a decent start.

A group of soldiers are sent to the border to install cameras for detecting illegal immigrants, they are accompanied with a group of cameras that film the whole deal (obviously) and soon after they started the mission they are assigned to change targets for a lost 'archeologist' near the area.

Well, I want to be fair with this, the movie starts good, it has nice scenes, their surroundings are pretty amazing, I love my continent to be honest and the visuals are amazing (not because of the talent of the director or filmmakers but for the place they choose).

Up until the "cave" part the movie was promising, the cave scene is amazing, wonderful cave, more movies should be made with natural surroundings like this instead of inside studios or north America and I don't say this to defend the movie, but, judge for yourself.

From the cave scene onward the movie start spiraling down from good to bad and then proceed from bad to mediocre, ending in such a low point that the whole idea seems so radically horrible i can't understand how the director managed to destroy it so easily.

The major low point in this movie is the bleak expression of each actor, i could accept the fact that they are soldiers but after they just boarded an alien aircraft they should had changed their ways, instead, they keep talking and walking and doing the mission like nothing happened and this totally destroyed the credibility of the movie, from that point onward it was a disaster.

The special effects are so awful that they could't hide the fact that they created just a room full of lights and tubes as a scenery inside the "spaceship" and we see a full 10 minutes of this guys walking the corridors and you can clearly see they are walking in circles! because there are no corridors, it's just a room !.

When the shooting start I could swear the alien bullets where Bengals or cheap Chinese firework, it was SO out of place that the movie quickly scaled from bad to worse.

After the ending I felt betrayed, I hoped this was a good one, Asylum had nice ideas in previous movies, but it was such a good place to film something great, totally thrown away by bad filmmaking and a completely bleak and boring script.

If the director had choose a different ending and shortened the movie about 30 minutes, it could probably be a passable one, but, as it is, I simply cannot recommend it for other than to watch the wonderful jungles we have on Latin America and this is just for the first 45 minutes. The rest of the movie is totally unnecessary.

guys i liked this movie and thinking of making one myself with my newly bought CMOS camcorder wait for my next release ;) I simply do not follow movies which are very high budget with great stars but poor storyline and just like following the crowd people assume that they liked the movie. I strongly suggest to get this perception out of our minds and start appreciating work of people newly entered in the movie industries. It may not be everyone's cup of tea but I thoroughly enjoyed it, and if you like films of this genre then you should enjoy it too. There were a few bits of the film that I guess weren't explored far enough (for me anyway, I pay too much attention to detail perhaps) but all in all I enjoyed it enough to want to watch it again sometime in the future.

I am beyond astonished at the low ratings this movie has gotten. I'd give it an easy 7.5! Either I'm an outlier or they are. Maybe I'm too easily entertained?

I was surprised by how good the movie was! I like Asylum movies. Don't get me wrong. I can see the difference between them and high quality movies. As a kid however I saw a LOT of low quality programming and enjoyed it.

Some reviewers have called this a rip off of "Prometheus." I don't know. I've only seen bits and pieces of "Prometheus" at best.

Some have claimed the movie was slow paced. I didn't see that. I was pretty close to riveted!

Some reviewers claimed the acting was bad. I didn't see that. When watching movies there's a certain amount of "suspension of reality" that must take place. Especially with a sci-fi / mystery. With that in mind I don't see a reason for complaints about dialogue, acting or directing. With that suspension of reality in mind the movie is quite believable to me. The found footage aspect of the movie should relieve many of the complaints of that sort.

Do you like B movies? If you do I think you should like this. Good luck!

What an awful excuse for entertainment, I do hope these guys make no money from the ten bucks they invested in this movie least it encourage them to make another. This is not even a waste of time, its minus a waste of time, effort and having to use your senses.