Area 51 |
  • USA • 2015 • 91m •   • Directed by: Oren Peli. • Starring: Reid Warner, Darrin Bragg, Ben Rovner, Jelena Nik, Roy Abramsohn, Frank Novak, Glenn Campbell, Conception West, James Decker, Patrick Sullivan, David Thornsberry, Jenna Thornsberry, Amelia Thornsberry..      Obsessed with breaking into the U.S. Air Force highly classified facility known only as Area 51, three young friends and zealous conspiracy theorists--Reid, Darrin and Ben--travel to Las Vegas. Equipped with state-of-the-art gear, they team up with Jelena, the daughter of the secret installation's former employee, and summon up the courage to sneak into the facility, intent on unearthing its otherworldly mysteries. There, in the bowels of the heavily guarded compound, terrifying truths and unfathomable knowledge await, and only the audacious UFO investigators' raw footage can prove their existence. However, can they make it back in one piece to share it with the world?
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This film starts at an incredibly slow rate trying to show 3 friends in their preparations to break into the heavily guarded and controversial Area 51 base. It seems like for about an hour they wasted time with unnecessary scenes en route to their destination. Just absolutely unnecessary scenes that could've been cut down into about 30 min rather than 60, but I'm sure it was cheaper on the budget this way. When they FINALLY arrive things do actually start happening and getting somewhat interesting. They find some alien technology and a UFO which had some creative yet cliché aspects. They then find some sort of secret chamber in which you definitely start thinking you'll see an alien pop out. After some tense suspense and claustrophobia you realize they aren't going to really show any aliens, but just rely on jump scares and loud bangs. At this point the movie is pretty much wrapping up and it does have a pretty cool unexpected ending which I won't get into detail with, but I still can't believe they barely showed the aliens at all. You get maybe one scene where you can get an outline of a gray, but other than that it's a tease.
For what this was hyped up to be, it was a huge disappointment, but I wasn't surprised honestly. If you want to waste an hour watching the build up to a half hour of creative and decently ambitious and exciting found footage, then go ahead. Just know that it takes awhile for things to start. If you're looking for visual aliens, this really doesn't offer any probably so they could save on the budget which must have been pretty low.
All in all an entertaining last half hour of found footage, yet overall a very boring mediocre film.
Review by tresm87 from the Internet Movie Database.
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