Area 51 (2015)

Highly Overrated But Still Good

Don't Believe the Hype

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

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.

Watched this as it was on TV and i couldn't sleep. It was boring apart from when they got inside but then it turned weird at the end Spoiler alertThe ending where they get lifted up is so stupid and over used in most other movies about aliens. Just boring and stupid and confusing but nothing else to watch then sure.

I'm sightly disappointed at the final product. We've literally been waiting 2 years for the movie to finally get released and this is what we get? The major issue that I personally had with the movie was the build up. It just takes way to long to get rolling. You can literally skip the first 40 minutes without missing anything. That's how bad it really is. Granted, towards the end the movie gets actually really interesting but unfortunately most people don't even make it that far, I reckon.The movie itself is clearly targeted towards conspiracy theorists who might not have such a hard time getting over the aforementioned fact.

Director Oren Peli's first feature was the phenomenally successful "Paranormal Activity" back in 2007. If he'd directed "Area 51" the following year, it might make sense as an attempt to strike while the iron was hot. But an eight year gap raises expectations that this film can't meet. This is competently made but bland in every way. Three friends, one very reluctantly, hatch and execute an elaborate plan to break into the secret facilities of Area 51, where our government supposedly experiments with aliens and/or alien technology. At one point the reluctant friend, Ben (the only character with a modicum of personality), refuses to go on until the ringleader, Reid, satisfactorily explains what is driving him forward in his plan. Viewers might well want to demand the same of Peli and co-writer Christopher Denham. If "The X-Files" taught us that the Truth Is Out There, "Area 51" teaches us that only people with a clearer vision than Peli and his collaborators can help illuminate it.