19/01/2017

Area 51

                   
I'm so sick of watching a mixture of blurs and nothing happening though a shaky hand held camera.
                   
                  
The best thing this film did for me was to make me feel nostalgic for Nevada (they even had the Little A'Le'Inn!), but 'Paul' could have done that, and I felt no character connection, no interest in the plot, no excitement throughout, and I don't think even any fear (though I wasn't watching it by myself in a room with the lights off, and I'm not five, so maybe I'm not being fair). I did feel mild confusion towards the end, but the tropes they roll out all fit together in some sort of a way, so there isn't even that much of a mystery.

Basically: a guy is abducted and recruited (unknowingly) to go free some aliens from Area 51, then he does, and in return him and his friends are abducted (and I guess eaten, or something) at the end. The film actually picks up a little in its last, say, twenty minutes, and ends up feeling like one of the mythology episodes from season nine of 'The X-Files'. It doesn't make that much sense, but it looks flashy and has aliens in it, so shut up.

That's what this movie is telling you. Are you going to take that? You sicken me.
                        
Area 51: 17.5