ctruth2 More ala "Blair Witch" crappola. Purposeful hand shaking camera - cut aways - dark on dark scenes – shaking camera action misses.Some directors seem to think this is compelling cinematography. Those of us who have seen "real" movies, do not!I did not pay to see the small part of this film that I could stomach w/o shutting it off. If I had, I'd be as outraged as I was with "Blair Witch".Don't waste your time or your money. If you liked "Blair Witch" then go for it…. Otherwise…This movie is not fit for consumption.

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.

bpickell2003 Just read every other comment and you will know what I think of the film. The one thing that upset me the most with this movie wasn't how bad the plot was, it wasn't how bad the acting was. It was the fact they never showed the stupid aliens. If I hadn't watched this movie on Netflix I would be pulling a South Park and banging on the producers door demanding my money back.I guess since I need more lines I will keep talking. The ending of the movie was pretty bad as well. Lets everyone just shoot blindly at nothing and waste all of our ammo while we all get slaughtered. Yeah that about sums it up.

Alex Vojacek Another found footage film makes it's entrance in an already crowded market.The idea of Alien Origin is sound, very "predator" like and with a decent start.A group of soldiers are sent to the border to install cameras for detecting illegal immigrants, they are accompanied with a group of cameras that film the whole deal (obviously) and soon after they started the mission they are assigned to change targets for a lost 'archeologist' near the area.Well, I want to be fair with this, the movie starts good, it has nice scenes, their surroundings are pretty amazing, I love my continent to be honest and the visuals are amazing (not because of the talent of the director or filmmakers but for the place they choose).Up until the "cave" part the movie was promising, the cave scene is amazing, wonderful cave, more movies should be made with natural surroundings like this instead of inside studios or north America and I don't say this to defend the movie, but, judge for yourself.From the cave scene onward the movie start spiraling down from good to bad and then proceed from bad to mediocre, ending in such a low point that the whole idea seems so radically horrible i can't understand how the director managed to destroy it so easily.The major low point in this movie is the bleak expression of each actor, i could accept the fact that they are soldiers but after they just boarded an alien aircraft they should had changed their ways, instead, they keep talking and walking and doing the mission like nothing happened and this totally destroyed the credibility of the movie, from that point onward it was a disaster.The special effects are so awful that they could't hide the fact that they created just a room full of lights and tubes as a scenery inside the "spaceship" and we see a full 10 minutes of this guys walking the corridors and you can clearly see they are walking in circles! because there are no corridors, it's just a room !.When the shooting start I could swear the alien bullets where Bengals or cheap Chinese firework, it was SO out of place that the movie quickly scaled from bad to worse.After the ending I felt betrayed, I hoped this was a good one, Asylum had nice ideas in previous movies, but it was such a good place to film something great, totally thrown away by bad filmmaking and a completely bleak and boring script.If the director had choose a different ending and shortened the movie about 30 minutes, it could probably be a passable one, but, as it is, I simply cannot recommend it for other than to watch the wonderful jungles we have on Latin America and this is just for the first 45 minutes. The rest of the movie is totally unnecessary.