TaryBiggBall It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Usamah Harvey The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

mherrin-43253 Area 51: Directed by Oren Peli and written by Christopher Denham and Oren PeliI have to just lay this out there for folks right off the bat. I can not stand found footage movies. That shaky cam and trying to make things realistic to make people believe that what is happening is real really make me nauseous. I get severe motion sickness from watching this type of cinema. I decided to forgoe my distaste for found footage movies because I found the idea behind this movie to be interesting. Three friends decide to sneak into Area 51 and document what they find there. Every person who is interested in aliens and UFOs know all about Area 51 and everyone wants to know what is going on there. I'm no different. I went out there to Rachel, Nevada to visit it. I got a little giddy by watching these places on the screen again. I enjoy it and I'm intrigued by it. I still have this nagging feeling though that this movie had no need to be found footage. It could have been a standard narrative and achieved far more success. When they make it into the base and the camera is still going wild, I had a difficult time determining what was happening. I wanted to know some semblance of what was happening. I wanted those moments between the friends and the woman who helps them where we learn about who they were as people. I wanted to know why they were obsessed. We never really learn much about any of them. You also find yourself asking why are they still filming when things go insane. It's the same question people ask when they watch a found footage movie. Making this a standard narrative removes that problem from the story. The ending was also blah. It has that usual bad ending that a lot of these found footage movies have and it was kinda BS. The beginning spoils this ending as well. The performances are pretty meaningless and outside of the interest in UFOs and Area 51, there's nothing to do here. It's scattered and a wasted potential. I hate to see that. I give this movie a D.

khanammir Tons of crap in the history of man kind. An unconnected themes which was not making sense. This movie even does not deserve 5 minutes of watching. Waste of time and money. Do not know what was writing doing while calling it a horror and thriller. It was so easy to intrude in such a high surveillance area, making so much noise and none is watching. Even the guards arrived and they managed to escape.

osirisnl Good visual effects. - Very slow - Plot was more then weak.Simply it was hard to watch without fast-forward. Had higher expectations but it is the oldest clichés film that I've have ever watched.For being a remake, they could have done a much better plot then this.

DBLurker First things first.This movie wants to copy Blair Witch really hard. REALLY hard. So expect a lot of shaky cam and night vision use. Unlike Blair Witch, the camera work is terrible here.Second, this movie is dumb.Characters have no useful skill-set that's ever specified. You don't know who they are, what their skills are, why they suddenly decide to turn suicidal and break into a military facility.. nope, nothing. One guy at the start of the movie is supposed to be kidnapped by aliens (this isn't a spoiler, trust me), at least that's what I think happens since the movie is about aliens. For all we know, he got drunk and wandered around. But that STILL doesn't explain why his black friend is stupid enough to follow a nut-job trying to enter into an army base. Don't these people have jobs?So when three nobodies, manage to casually walk into a military facility, running around laughably in the open, with only ONE SECURITY CAMERA in the whole base (which they fail to avoid, of course)... you know you are in for a treat. Don't even get me started on the terrible acting, script, camera-work, lighting and CGI. The aliens especially are just hilariously bad and I burst out laughing the first time they showed one moving on-screen.Anyway, this movie lasts for 1hr 30mins. The alien bits happen after 1hr 13mins of watching them run around in an empty military facility with no security cameras (except THAT one which they fail to avoid).This is just torture. I am betting real aliens probing you would feel like a heaven after sitting through this.