After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Yet another found footage/group of friends in an isolated cabin beset by aliens movie; this time trying to justify everything being filmed by, believe it or not, having one of the characters insert a camera into a fake eye which, inexplicably includes a red recording light shining out of the lens ala the Terminator (the record light, even in micro cameras, is NOT in front of the lens and we won't even talk about the potentials for tissue irritation from inserting a home made fake eye - with red yarn for veins - into a soft tissue socket). Oh yes, and the aliens also make everyone's phone magically record for no reason - they must want to make sure they leave some proof of their visitation behind. But the upshot is that it wastes its thin premise with too much running around in the woods yelling about how they shouldn't be running around in the woods yelling; with three male actors whose deficiencies as thespians become more and more apparent the more agitated their characters get; repetitious and clunky dialogue (of the obvious and overt type - characters saying aloud what their responses are or the main guy constantly reiterating "I'm not losing anyone else" because, see, his wife lost their unborn baby in the same accident he lost his eye - which in Screenwriting for Dummies fashion had to immediately follow him saying something like "I'm just happy the baby will be healthy"); and last, but not least, all of the inconsistent alien behavior and random powers and attributes as if they spring from the collected history of ALL movie aliens and NOT a specific species or technologically developed society (and this includes a spaceship design inspired (or just poorly copied from) Close Encounters. I wish filmmakers would think these things through with intelligence and creativity instead of throwing everything against the wall and settling for anything that sticks. I appreciate the constraints of low budget film-making but, in the end, there's still no excuse for stupid.

The Gracefield Incident starts promisingly, it even comes up with a concept to justify the whole thing being recorded and I started to think this might surprise.Alas it didn't, in fact within about 20 minutes it soon descends into that found formula footage we've had shoved down our throats for the past couple of decades and brings no originality to the table.Group of 20 somethings go out to have fun in a secluded cabin and become targeted by aliens. Thats basically it.Kudos to them for the sfx because though they aren't fantastic at least they didn't do the usual thing of not showing you anything to keep the budget down.The film isn't without its moments but ultimately this is just yet another flawed found footage mess.The Good: Great twist on the justification for still recording when crap is going down Nice selection of movie posters Decent enough startThe Bad: Becomes real generic real fast Lifeless cast Things I Learnt From This Movie: In the presence of evil aliens even balloons will flee

Pfuuu... where to start.OK, we go with bad things and the good thingsBad: Unlogical thinking like, screaming as loud as you can when you trying to hide or to be unseen. After you saw a creature as tall as a tree you still go to sleep with opened windows, having whole area including interior, exterior of the cabin under surveillance but not keeping an eye on monitors, not waking up anybody even there is a monster inside the cabin, having night-vision on camera but wont use it inside the cave etc etc etc. Things like these are bad in movies, but in this case these weren't the worst... acting. 80per of the movie you will not believe any of the actors (the only bright exception was the girlfriend of the main guy... don't know what was her name and honestly I can not care less. But few times she acted really like an actress... actual actress), but acting was still not the worst part of the movie... that one belongs to the voices. Terrible editing and mixing. It does not matter how far away from each other everyone was, doesn't matter what other sounds were in the same time there, You can still hear everyone the same volume.Good: Nothing ... OK, its about aliens... that's itSummary: Terrible. In bad things I wasn't talking about the story, because by itself it might have been good, but everything else killed it. Including terrible ending.I am really big fan of horror, sci-fi, mystery etc movies... but this one I wouldn't recommend. Its not the worst movie I have seen in my life, but its probably not worthy of anybodies time

The Gracefield Incident... I don't usually write reviews, I'm more of a creepy scroll through kind of person, but this ladies and gentlemen is an exception. To start off, I'm not going to basically regurgitate the script like most user reviewers on here. I'm simply going to explain my thought process while watch this 'film' (I use the term loosely here). From the opening scene I knew I was in for an average journey of misplacing 90 minutes of my life. The lead protagonist and his iPhone camera supported eyeball was almost enough for me to turn it off and put it on the list of easily forgettable movies. Instead, I proceeded to endure. The acting was so bad, I thought to myself, 'this guy has to be the director, no one would have cast him otherwise'. So after a cheeky IMDb search, bingo! Writer, director and star Mathieu Ratthe. His laughable attempt at an American accent was irritating beyond belief, and this is coming from an Australian. The writing is terrible, with horrible dialogue, delivered by a group of people who couldn't get a job at local school production. As it continued, I couldn't really put my finger on who the lead reminded me of, and then.... it hit me! Tommy Wiseau, the infamous creator of the now cult film 'The Room'. From the inaudible dialogue, to the over acting, to the scenes filmed in night vision that have been clearly film in daylight with a green filter added in post-production. I'm assuming this copycat of every other found footage film ever made will reach that status though.In the end, what really annoyed me was the premise and idea was actually pretty good, I was excited to see it. Now that I have, I feel as though I have lost precious brain cells. If you feel the need to waste some time, by all means give it a go, but please fellow IMDBers, let me be your guinea pig. It hurt, and I don't want to go through it ever again!