Seraherrera The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

Teddie Blake The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Hattie I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

vengeance20 Seen a trailer for this while watching another straight-to-DVD film some years back & thought the concept to be quiet interesting. I mean, I'm not a big fan of found footage, but this one grabbed me & I had to put it down on my watch list!The film is about a plane which crashes into a government testing facility due to turbulence experienced in the flight prior, to which we also learn that it is new years day! Of all days, this happens & the plane crashes in of all places on of all days! Typical, but hey! It works!Anyway, they crash, survive & happen to be in a government testing facility where these "creatures" lurk! Now through all the bitchin' & moaning you get in this film, the Blair Witch style of film comes in. Moaning, screaming, complain & bitchin' seems to dominate this film over 85% of the time. It gets on your nerves so much so that just want to get on with the film & get to the point.Although you see quick glimpses of the creature, or whatever it is, you don't see anything other than the group screaming & yelling 85% of the time, its annoying & then comes the end which wasn't too bad, but not much of a twist! It was actually disappointing! The effects of the dinosaur were terrible & simply unimaginative!Sadly , not great, despite its concept! 3/10

bowmanblue I've read some pretty scathing reviews about Tape 407, so I naturally didn't have many hopes for it. Plus I'm getting as sick as most horror fans about the amount of 'found footage' films that are being churned out. This is one of those 'Blair Witch' movies filmed from a single camera all the way where you constantly shout at the screen "Why are you actually filming all this?" We know the 'first person' gimmick is just a way of filming on the cheap, but, if you can get over that here, it's not quite as bad as people are making out. Not quite.Perhaps one mistake was making the camera-person a sixteen-year-old American girl from L.A. She does tend to shriek quite a bit. However, her shrieking is soon drowned out by everyone else. The plane she's on crashes in the middle of an American military testing base/desert and the survivors end up getting stalked by a load of monsters.The film also leaves you a bit shaken due to the excessive shaky camera-work to go with the shrieking. All in all, it's a tough watch, but it's not all bad. Some of the characters are actually quite fun to watch - the air hostess is believable and passenger 'Charlie' is wonderfully annoying, making you just want to strangle him.However, and I hope this doesn't count as a spoiler, the opening test card to the film tells you that this footage is 'found' therefore you don't have to be a genius to guess the ending. The ending. The ending has left a lot of people cheesed off. Anyone who was enjoying it up until the end feels like the film-makers used one too many clichés to be believable.Yes, for all its - many - flaws, I did sit through it and feel I didn't entirely waste an hour of my life.I can't bring myself to recommend it, as it's clear that the majority of people didn't. However, I think there will be a few people out there - like me - who at least saw SOME good in it.

patchesalseier Area 407 is a movie about fake people superimposed upon a cheap desert set for an interminable amount of time while constantly repeating phrases, using gratuitous, redundant explication, and pretending to be hunted by things they don't seem to know is there, that they can't hear, never see and don't care about.(Spoiler: the things are supposed to be creatures that are a part of some secret government "genetic experiment," or velociraptors, as some may call them, though the actors don't and never would because it's always so obvious they know they're supposed to be reacting to something that will be added postproduction, but they've not been told what that will be. Any idiot born in this universe would immediately know what to call the creatures, or at least compare them to, from even a momentary, peripheral impression of one. At the VERY least someone would say "dinosaur." All that to say that the second I knew what they were, which was almost the first sound they make, they became uninteresting, because I knew I'd already seen it all before in all the Jurassic parks movies, and done as good as it can be done. We also know, from those movies, the most probable behavior such creatures will display. So, we'll see absolutely nothing knew here.)Just a couple of other things I would like to say about ALL found footage movies (and to those who make them): First, today's video equipment, from the most expensive digital cameras to iPhones, will never, ever record video that will fade in and out, blur, pixelate, fuzz-out, freeze-frame or display ANY other type of "interference" pattern just because the user is running with the equipment, waving it about, screaming (or just because there's any kind of loud noise nearby), or because the equipment itself senses that something exciting and dangerous is happening at the time. To cause some type of interference you'd have to drop the thing on a rock (after which the interference would never resolve), shake it violently, or get it very wet. The one type of display interference, though, that bothers me the most is when the camera suddenly can't hold a steady picture because a monster is nearby. There's usually never any other practical reason presented in the movie for the camera to behave that way, because the user is typically standing very still or just in shock--so no running or shaking the camera, or throwing it or anything. It's the equivalent of the camera getting scared and peeing itself. It's just dumb effects. Please make them stop!The second thing is that it's completely unnecessary, and painful for us, to hear the actors argue on and on for half the movie about using the video camera to tape what is going on. WE DON'T CARE!! It's not going to matter to us or the story, so just have someone say something like, "we need to record this for posterity," or "our families" or "to make a million on a found footage movie of this experience if we ever get out of this alive, or for our families if we don't." Have everyone else say, "Hey, that's a good idea," AND SHOOT THE DARN MOVIE!!!

nynemout42 Don't want to spoil a movie for anyone! The actors and actresses played great roles. There's complete closure at the end. Shot in first person video in present day. If you direct a movie that is supposed to be in present day, how about make the events believable and not silly. I didn't mind knowing what was after the people, but most of the events that unfold are outlandish. It's like a 10 year old directed the movie with the help of his dad! The first part of the movie takes FOREVER to unfold and once you're into the thick of things it is just plain disappointing. I usually stick with a movie no matter how bad it is to give it a fair shake. I did that with this one, but I came closer than ever to turning it off. You can watch it if you want, but just be prepared to lose interest, and be disappointed.