Good idea lost in the noise

Excellent but underrated film

A Disappointing Continuation

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

If your looking for an movie thats very funny good; don't not watch this one as it is frighteningly and axiting. There is a very pretty femaile lady who fights with a dinosore. She is good at acting; but the cameraman is not a good cameraman, he talks over the lad-y and keeps looking at her bum and brests. The south African is a wolly.This movie was like paranormal activity meets Jurassic park only it wasn't as good as either of those. If you ever get the chance to watch this movie you should probably not do that and do something else...like knitting...or masonry...or catching a delicious bass...or joinery...or shopping for fashion..or fission..or fission for fashion. Probably don't watch this film. But don't just take my word for it, find out for yourselves...was this review helpful?

This could have been an interesting movie, in spite of the "found footage" nature. The location was great, and the B-movie acting talent wasn't bad. Generally, I'm a B-movie fan.Unfortunately, it is terminally mauled by the premise that a film crew with enough budget to hire a cameraman and a producer in the first place and fly them to Peru, manages to hire a cameraman so incredibly stupid that he doesn't understand that he is not supposed to walk last so that every moving shot in the entire movie is ankles, butts, and ground, constantly turn the camera around and talk to it, take shaky spinny camera shots from behind seats, behind people, behind rocks, behind trees, yammer on and on and on and on and on and on, and shoot perhaps 7x more shots of his producer's erect nipples than of the conveniently available dinosaurs that they eventually discover.Imagine hiring Steve Stiffler from American Pie to work a camera on a documentary, and you pretty much have "James". Obviously, their SFX budget was minuscule and they wanted to conserve on-screen dino time, but instead, it comes across that James is so mind-numbingly moronic that when he's actually physically pointing the camera at a living breathing dinosaur, he'd rather turn the camera away and point it at his producer's face or nipples and talk.Did I mention that James is also operating the only documentary camera in the history of documentaries that utterly doesn't have night vision? Because, well, why would you take one of those into a jungle? And they're sleeping in a tent, in the Amazon, with every window zipped up tight as a drum, because god knows that you wouldn't be seeking a breeze in a Peruvian rain forest -- or to well, be able to see out, using the night vision that you didn't bring. Oh, or flashlights. Why would you bring flashlights to a jungle? Also, early on they lose their guides in a separate car -- who go forward on a one-lane road because they're scared, but who somehow vanish for the entire of the movie because they, I don't know, teleported to behind them, perhaps? It's perhaps a minor complaint among all the rest, but if your car is stopped because it's broken the night before, it probably shouldn't just start and drive away the next day.And in spite of the "found footage" nature of the film, including the "we put this together by timestamp" intro, the producer and professor survive. Meaning that it's not truly found footage at all, just film put together by the actual person who'd have been doing it anyway. But of course horribly in any case, because cameraman James.Unfortunately, no dinosaurs eat James. God, was I rooting for them to do so. He does die at the end, though. So yay.

Having an obnoxious cameraman on found footage is the equivalent of seated next to a loud texting person in cinema. Extinction has a couple good moments and the setting is presentable, but almost half of the movie is spent on bickering. If it's for realism of human drama, it's doubtful that actual documentary people would argue as much and the banter is not exactly appealing. For the encounter with alleged monster, it has so little impact since the effect is far from compelling, so barely anything works in Extinction.The film follows the journey of scientists and filmmakers to the depth of Amazon. They soon find out that the forest hides a very insidious secret. The use of found footage is mainly to create a sense of involvement for audience, yet the movie has a very confrontational cast. Nearly everyone would mumble in antagonizing manner almost in every scene, especially the cameraman James who is utterly annoying.He would instigate people and react poorly when interacting with others. It's probably for humor purpose, but it gets tiring very fast. There are the rudimentary comments on the existence of creature which are plodding the already uninteresting endeavor. Some scenes involving actual fauna is a bit better to establish the authenticity, though these are few between all the squabbles.As expected there would be unclear shots as the monster eventually reveals itself. It's not half bad since a couple of these instances are engaging. However, the effect for said monster is not convincing. The movie doesn't have the luxury of smooth mix of usual camcorder view and CG like Troll Hunter or Cloverfield. Not to mention the cast is unfriendly, it won't garner much sympathy.In the end, Extinction doesn't offer an amusing journey, let alone the grandeur encounter the poster falsely advertises.

Oh another found footage film ! When you've seen one you've them all and you can only judge them on how scary the scary moments are . To be honest the only film in this sub-genre was GRAVE ENCOUNTERS that impressed me simply because because the scares were genuine . That said EXTINCTION does sound fairly intriguing because it's a British film that involves a scientific expedition to the Amazon jungle and from what I could gather from the location guide on this page it was filmed in Wales ! The Welsh valleys doubling for a South American jungle. This should be interesting To be fair to director Adam Spinks and the production team do their utmost best to conceal the fact that the location is more Celtic than Latin . They do this filming everything in woodland and as someone who has done a lot of travelling one clump of trees looks very much like another clump of trees no matter where you are in the world and it doesn't necessarily equate heat and blazing sunshine are connected . Just get the cast to wear shorts and tee-shirts and if you've got a cute actress in the shape of Sarah Mac running around all hot and sweaty no red blooded male viewer is going to complain . But Spinks goes further and involves animals such as boa constrictors and big hairy tarantulas which adds to the illusion . The only thing that doesn't work is the reptile monsters themselves which aren't really convincing and isn't helped by having them appearing on screen a bit too long . There is also an annoying aspect of jump cut editing that draws your attention to the fact that it isn't found footage in the true sense . But if someone who enjoys the found footage genre you'll probably enjoy this one