bparvin This movie had a decent plot and delivered a story with some very minor plot twists. It had a very straight path with no little guessing on what would happen next. Decent movie if you like the "documentary" style film. Worth the watch but don't expect a movie you will suggest to your friends.

bigbenjr48 The Bay seemed like a combination of Found-Footage and Documentary all rolled into one. Interesting. This I kinda liked. But I still didn't like the way I was fooled into thinking I was about to watch a horror film (based on how it was advertised in clips, teasers and previews). As it turns out, this was more like a "what-if-scenario". Or (more boldly) a propaganda movie funded by the likes of Peta or Green Peace and associates.Water is initially to blame. Then later, what is 'in' the water is finally pinpointed as the cause of death. But their findings and discoveries are too little, too late. Apparently Chicken doo-doo and nuclear waste have fornicated and offspring a nasty deadly parasite that eats the innards of its host. And boy what fun it has feasting. The fish of the Bay consume this tasty parasite first and quickly die, but this draws little attention or panic initially, until people start eating and drinking it secondly. And it don't take long for locals to realize that Alka-seltzer and Pepto-Bismol won't cure the indigestion, so (what else?) they flee to the hospital in droves...where they drop dead in numbers.There was also this nonsensical, back-and-forth communication (via Skype) between the local hospital and the CDC (Centers For Disease Control) that only wasted more time investigating this outbreak and not really taking it seriously until it was too late.This movie could have worked much better if the parasites that crawled up peoples asses turned them into Zombies or some other unmentionable Monstrosity that could have at least produced a new horror sub-genre. But instead, this movie (Shamelessly) purposely had its own Green-Party-Type agenda that (subliminally) wants to recruit a new generation of voters, lobbyist to fight for their cause. All these parasites did was turn them into bawling babies who ran to the hospital and die in the waiting-room while waiting to be seen by a doctor. And this was very boring to watch. And very much proves my point that we should contact our local Congressman to stop this madness before it starts.I still give this movie much props for not having the traditional "shaky-cam" that most found-footage films usually have (for that "so-called" realism-feel). But that credit is only enough to raise my rating to a 4/10. Because it damn near got a 3.

jlthornb51 Barry Levinson, master film maker extrodinaire, takes the "found footage" genre and makes it his own with this fantastic masterpiece of a cautionary tale of environmental catastrophe. Working from his own original story, Levinson uses his camera like a scalpel, cutting away the facade of indifference to the inevitable and forcing the audience to clearly see the potential horror that awaits society. This is an important film, shocking in the implications it presents and skillfully realized by one of our greatest motion picture directors. It is certainly some of his best work and his most unusual as well. Few of us who have experienced this cinematic triumph will ever sleep soundly again.

Saiph90 The Blair Witch Project cursed us with found footage and the whole raft of truly awful films. So when I discovered it was a found footage film my heart sank and the TV presented saying "there is something in the water that does not want to stay in the water" my heart further sank I thought we would have Godzilla on found footage. This is more of a horror documentary which does not overdose on gore, I watched the awful Into the Storm which made the mistake of having a really flimsy sub plot which did not work, The Bay has no real sub plot but has a claustrophobic terror and a few jolts such as when the creature jumps from the fish's mouth, the blood dropping down onto the reporter and the woman in the back of the police car. This is an excellent concept and although classed as found footage does not go overboard with jerky camera work.