Alien Origin
Alien Origin
| 12 June 2012 (USA)
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A movie created from "found footage" of a lost military expedition that exposes the origins of life on earth.

Reviews
Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!
Titreenp SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?
Tacticalin An absolute waste of money
ShangLuda Admirable film.
Kat S. Spoiler alert...although if you saw the trailer this alert is unnecessary as the trailer basically tells the story in whole, better than the movie.A lot of reviewers said there wasn't enough action, but I could live with that if the action that was there made any sense.First, you have a group of military men plus a journalist going heavily armed into the jungles of Belize to set up spy cameras to catch any possible illegal activity. For some reason, from the start they decide they need to sneak into the jungle with guns out, as though they're walking into the middle of a war zone. Having never been in a Belize jungle, I guess it's possible that makes sense...but it seems unlikely.Then, despite their paranoia, they go to sleep without posting someone to night watch duty, although they do set up some night vision cameras to record some animal visitors. In the morning some of the cameras are missing and the trees have weird slashes on them which causes some concern, but not much.The behavior of the actors...whether due to acting or direction, I have no idea, was either flat or unreal.They're told their mission has changed and they have to investigate the disappearance of some archaeologists.They find one of the missing archaeologists with some Mennonites and she leads them to what clearly looks to be an alien spaceship. Do they radio to their headquarters to let them know to send back up? Scientists to investigate? Does the journalist look happy to have found the scoop of a lifetime? Do they do anything at all? Nope; they just head on inside, barely reacting to the fact that they're in a freaking UFO. They only get concerned when they decide it's a "maze" in there and they may get lost.When the journalist picks up what looks like an alien skull with pointy teeth, an alarm goes off and they run screaming out of the ship. They finally radio in to their headquarters, but do they mention the UFO? Nope; they ask for extraction...and are told to walk several miles to a road to meet some trucks. When they get to said trucks, they are empty and don't start. Do they radio in to let anyone know this; nope; they decide to walk to the next extraction point. Along the way they find the exact same cave that the archaeologist's found earlier. They're desperately running from aliens and looking for extraction so of course they ditch that plan and decide to investigate the cave.I stopped watching at that point. It wasn't the horrible graphics. It wasn't the bad acting. I just couldn't hold on to my "suspension of disbelief". I couldn't believe trained military personal would behave so stupidly. Because of that, I was rooting for the alien by then. I already knew from the beginning that these people would disappear. I not only didn't care anymore if they did; I couldn't wait for it to happen.
Igor Vovkovinskiy I understand what the director and writers were trying to do, really I do, and the Colombian soldiers or whichever S.A. country they were from were very collective and looked really like soldiers, well to someone who has never been in an military service. But nothing ever happens. The production company could have hired some 2nd graders to make some paper mache aliens or something. It never reaches any focal point. It looks very promising sometimes, in some moments you think something cool will happen. But it never does. This movie would have had so much audience and so much potential, but I have to say this, don't waste your life on watching this movie.
Raydio I really knew nothing about "Alien Origin" before sitting down to watch it, other than the title. After the first couple of minutes I thought this was going to be a "Predator" copy. Nothing could be further from the truth!After watching "Alien Origin" I'm left to wonder what was the point of this film? Was it to see how much boredom a human being can tolerate? Perhaps there's a subliminal message embedded in the film urging viewers to eat more vegetables? It certainly wasn't to entertain the audience with an engrossing tale and engaging dialog. I would love to hear the director being interviewed about his reasons for making this film, I'd imagine the conversation would go something like this;Interviewer: "Well Mark perhaps you could tell our viewers what inspired you to create Alien Origin?"Mark Atkins: "Actually, my sole purpose in creating this film was to see just how much life I could suck out of people - end of story." Interviewer: "That's a bit callous isn't it Mark, after all life is short."Mark Atkins: "Ehh, It's just what I do."Please, do not waste your precious life watching this film. If you really have 88 minutes to spare, why not clean out the garage, start working on last year's tax return, or better still, visit your sick Aunt Mabel, all of which would be infinitely more entertaining. 1/10
kllytomkins This is the worst movie I have seen in a long time, it will make you sick if you just watch it due to the camera operation. I wouldn't watch it if someone loaned it to you. This is two hours of my life that I will never get back and I feel dumber for watching it. I would have enjoyed the movie if it had stayed in the ship longer and I noticed how they blurred it to avoid you seeing the plumbing in someones basement. I can honestly say that anyone can put out a movie these days and this one didn't even make a B-movie list for me. Don't get me wrong I love any kind of Sci-Fi but this was not even that. They try to pass it off as a documentary and some lost footage so don't walk RUN!!!!!