Really Surprised!

I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

I wish I had not even rented this from Netflix.The on-screen quality of the video is bad: in other words, it's like (and may well be) a DVD copy of a video of a video.I guess there's an element of being a spoof to consider, but it is so infantile, and so USA centric, that it does not qualify as reasonable joke about documentaries and conspiracy theories.It is not even worth viewing to see how bad it is.It blends minor true facts (such as the Secretary of Defense Forrestal committing suicide) and outright garbage (such as a sister planet of Earth being on the other side of the sun 1,000 years ago) to make a paranoid person's idea of likelihood (as Judy Tenuta would say: "It could happen")

Craig Baldwins's found footage montage about the history of mankind and the evil aliens that haunt us. It's a straight faced pseudo-documentary that is a dead on send up of the UFO films of the 70's and 80's and of some of the alleged belief's of the Church of Scientology . It completely shreds your ideas about what is history and how we know what s real and what isn't simply because it makes its case so convincingly that if you didn't know any better you could actually believe it. Certainly it makes its claims in a more convincing way than many news programs. If you want to disappear for 45 minutes into a different mind set or want to see a really good science fiction tale give this a shot

The cinematic equivalent of John Oswald's plunderphonics which takes as its theme the demented paranoia of Cold-War militarism and fleshes it out with an ultra-critical pastiche of found-footage, comprising SF and black ops imagery amonst other stock sources, to launch a sustained attack on US intervention against the self determination movements of Latin America. Baldwin has called it a "pseudo pseudo documentary," a film that tells the truth about American imperialism and anti-socialist countersubversion through the faux documentary genre. At a formal level, Baldwin's film is an exercise in Brechtian postmodernism in which techniques of defamiliarization, verfremdungseffect, and cognitive shock tactics are exploited to produce a work of political art that is at once incisive and baffling. Ostensibly, the film claims to reveal an ancient conspiracy in which a race of aliens, originating, appropriately, from the planet Quetzalcoatl, have infiltrated South America and are waging a clandestine war with the United States. However, through its formal techniques and diacritical strategies, Tribulation 99 is simultaneously engaged in a damning indictment of the US government's historically tenured policy of political destabilisation throughout the Americas.

Directed by Craig Baldwin (Negativland's "Sonic Outlaws"), Trib99 offers a Grand Unified Theory of Conspiracies including Castro, Kennedy, the wolf man, killer bees, the Panama Canal, and the United Fruit Company. As with any good conspiracy theory a surprising amount of the information is 100% fact with a small amount of completely unverifiable speculation to tie it together. Assembled completely from stock footage.