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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JorrJorr" data-source="post: 3998460" data-attributes="member: 11744">There was a preview here in the Twin Cities on Monday night that I attended. I will not spoil anything, but I will say I had mixed feelings about the movie when it was over. First, yes it's all POV from the user's handheld camera. Once the action gets going, there are moments that are very _bad_. Worse at points than Blair Witch Project. In fact, at one person at our showing didn't make it to the bathroom before hurling in the hallway.The good about the movie:Definately had creepy/scary moments, especially with the decent sound system we had. You could feel the theater vibrate as the monster moved about. It was kind of a neat sensation and really got you in the mood <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />The weak about the movie:Strictly shown as a video journal of someone in Manhatten as the attack occurs. This will cause mixed feelings with a lot of people, including me. I was hoping for something more to frame the context of the handheld footage, rather than show the video with no context. Characters started out intelligent, but towards the end a number of things occurred that I found really hard to swallow if this type of event was really happening. It felt more like someone's home movie of a really bad Hollywood Blockbuster (with bad dialog and such) with the types of character actions that were occurring.Fairly predictable when something _big_ was going to happen. The foreshadowing of _big_ events were very telegraphed. This may have been on purpose to highten the horror, but some events worked and others didn't.Summary:Basically the movie is meant to be a sensory experience much like BWP. You're meant to empathize with the characters as they go their trials on screen and the camera POV enhances it. But ultimately it's just like a rollercoaster ride once the thrill of the unknown wears off, you can only watch it so many times before you ask yourself "Ok, now what?"So the movie is fun early Summer fair _if_ you can handle the the shakiness. If you had problems with BWP, then you might want to sit this one out. I found sitting towards the back of the theater helps me for these types of movies. It's definately worth experiencing if you like that sort of thing. I'd recommend a matinee showing though at a theater with good sound.I liked it, but it's flawed I feel. So, marginal thumbs up.</blockquote>

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