Alien Origin (2012)

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Crappy film

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

It wasn't as bad as most of the reviews I've read. My only gripe is that I wished they would have shown more of the alien. We never get to see what is firing missiles at the military group. We barely get a snippet at the very end. If you don't like shaky camera shots then this might be tough for you to watch but don't give the movie a bad review because of it. Blair Witch was far worse with the camera shaking. This is more akin to Cloverfield type camera angles. I would also have liked to find out more about where the alien came from. They didn't give us viewers too much to go off of. They also showed too much military action moving about the forest - a lot of that could've been cut out.

Horrible acting!!!!! Even worse story line!!!!! Terrible camera angling!!!!! Cheap "special" effects!!!!!! Can't even get to see the actual "THING" properly. I wish there was a "-" star rating for this movie. From now on I'm going to read reviews before and not after I see the movie, I don't usually write but this movie was just too horrible not to warn viewers before they watch it. The characters seem to die then come back to life, and for the story line, there's a difference between being desperate to find your spouse and just being plain dumb, as in the case of the couple that went missing. Basically, failure at it's best. And since when running around the forest shaking a camera is entertaining? They should have used the little funding from this film to either pay tuition for the actors, or the director.

I watched Alien Origins with an open mind and low expectations, but I do agree with other commentators that the film was just awful. The poster was cool and the scenery but that's it. In fact, I'd go as far to say that Alien Origins beats Titanic II(Transmorphers was rubbish as well) as the absolute worst film that The Asylum has ever produced. Alien Origins looks cheap, with choppy camera work, some of the worst special effects I've seen for any movie and footage that is clumsily incorporated and adds little if anything to the atmosphere. The aliens look fake and have no menace whatsoever to them. Another big problem was the story. The tone itself is all over the place, you are never sure whether it is trying to be mystery or sci-fi, in both those elements it fails abysmally, never being suspenseful or thrilling enough. It is also lethargic in pace, and never recovers throughout, and there are even times where next to nothing happens. The music and sound effects are generic, with little creepiness, in fact when something does happen they make it all too obvious, which I dislike intensely regarding movies. The dialogue is stilted and aimless, while the characters are stereotypical and have no likability or development to them. The acting is terrible, the actors show no passion or sense of what's going on and all too often it feels as though they were not even directed. All in all, Alien Origins is junk. 1/10 Bethany Cox

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!!!!!