Excellent, a Must See

Best movie of this year hands down!

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

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Ha ha ha. So I wasn't the only person to get very serious Tommy Wiseau vibes from this film and its clearly not-American lead who I later discover is also the writer and director. The mundane poster and sparse synopsis did nothing to draw me in to the film and I expected very little going into it. At first we're treated to a prologue involving a sick car accident in which we learn later on the protagonist loses an eye, and which it is later implied that his wife loses her unborn baby. This ultimately was an unneeded scene, but one ultimately still used by big dumb movies that feel the need to handhold the audience and explain everything, because the next scene 10 months later shows the guy working on a new prosthetic eye for himself, one with a camera in it, which becomes one of the main points in which we actually see the events unfold. The main plot involves the guy and his wife and some friends going and hanging out in a cabin somewhere in the woods of Ontario. It actually took me around this far into the movie to realize the main character guy was not American and had a very, very thick accent which I only know (or think) now is Quebecois, because he has a French name and it's set in Canada, but for the life of me he sounds like Tommy Wiseau (of The Room) with a higher pitched voice. Even the guy playing his friend, Joe, has a way of speaking that is reminiscent of both Greg and Denny from "The Room" The comparisons don't end there, as the writing and dialogue here makes "The Room" look subtle by comparison. Almost all of the dialogue sounds childish, as though written by someone with very little understanding of the English language on top of having very little understanding of writing believable characters as well. The characters don't talk to each other so much as clumsily enunciate the script's intentions at each other, like when they hear an odd noise in the woods and one of them immediately says "It sounds like an animal" when it clearly was in no way animal-like. A lot of this kind of dialogue pervades the movie, trying to lead the audience around the conceit as if the audience were made up of children who would be so oblivious to the fact that there are ALIENS in a sci-fi ALIENS movie. The absolute best bit of dialogue resulting from this child-like writing is when Matt figures out what the aliens are after, and says out loud to his wife "We'll give them the thing, but only if they give us our friends back. If they don't give us our friends, they get nothing!" The acting and dialogue are utterly atrocious in the same way as "The Room", and it's a shame because the story and the visual effects in this film are shockingly good. A lot of ideas put into it are also compelling and intriguing. Even the alien, after being shown very sparsely all throughout, gets a long, luxurious close-up of its face and it looks amazing. And the surprise twist ending involving the Alien MacGuffin was so cute and unexpected that I bumped up my rating of this film by a star. This was actually a good movie that got badly executed, dominated by one man with no clear understanding of how to write people communicating with each other.

This movie, though predictable, would have had some merit had it not been for the woeful script. The characters portrayed come across as mindless morons as a result. The question "What's going on?" repeated over and over does not a great script make. This movie has really gotten me over the whole "first person" view style of movie making so at least, thanks for that.

Contains plot spoilers: Matt loses and eye and installs a camera in his eye because a house and land with cameras and everyone having a camera didn't cover enough. Three couples go to a cabin in the woods where there are Big Foot sightings, crop circles, and aliens. When a meteor lands nearby, Matt gathers it up and the fun begins.The film would have been fine had they not insisted on making this a found footage film with shaky cameras waiting until the end for us to see the alien. From what I understand from the premise of the film, baby aliens are somehow formed in space and tossed to the earth to remote areas of Canada where the parent lives. Needed more of an alien back story.No sex or nudity. I didn't catch any swear words.

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!