I could have made a better movie on my iphone with cardboard cut outs for
597976
I can't believe I actually made it 3 minutes through that god awful excuse for a movie. I could have made a better movie on my iphone with cardboard cut outs for actors
4454592
I was LOL throughout most of this flick and had no remorse about hitting the rewind a full 10 minutes before the finale. With predictable transparent characters and recycled story lines, this movie plays more like a spoof than an actual sci-fi thriller. Some good special effects seem woefully out of place when draped on a sophomoric story line, like icing on stale cake. The best thing about the video is 1)i didn't waste my money at the box office and 2) it's fair warning about the sequel.
4100696
This film could have been a lot better if it just stuck to the raw footage, raw sounds, and well, the overall rawness of everything. I felt like their was just too much scripted nonsense from the journalist. The things he says in a lot of the scenes, the added effects, and the multiple attempts to make us think he was shot and dead (when he drops his camera, the scene fades black, and dramatic music plays, just to have him pop back up and act like nothing happened) - it really annoyed me.

For me, the only raw scene that I felt hit home, was the ending scene when they were paying their respects to the fallen soldiers. That was not scripted in any way, the journalist did little talking, and it just showed video and the true emotion from everyone. If it would have been like that throughout the whole film, I would probably have given this more stars. But I give it 3 out of 5 just because the journalist made it more about him and his nonsense than he did the actual soldiers and the reason he was there.
3496922
I like arty dramatic films and I like genre films and mixing the two can sometimes create something that is transcendent (Don't Look Now, The Long Goodbye, No Country For Old Men, I Walked With A Zombie, 2001, Blow Up, Badlands, etc.) Not here.

There were a few brief moments of tension killed by directing/editing choices that were clumsy and cliched (perhaps an ironic comment on genre cliches?).  Too many quirky innocent ramblings about chiggers and books, that, spoken by children, must hold some profundity.  The humor of the film came from the colorful locals and didn't seem to have much to do with any directorial intention.  And finally, the music.  We knew something dramatic was happening on the screen when the music kicked in. Philip Glass or not, the music was intrusive, clunky (like video game music during the action scenes) and cinematically redundant.
3915554
This movie was bordering on terrible, the trailer makes it look like there is a compelling and suspenseful story line but this never really materializes amidst prolonged scenes that are funny and entertaining by themselves but a hodgepodge when  rolled together. I wish I could get my money back or at least a credit toward renting a future movie, better luck next time
3480086
I love bad movies, but this made me cringe all the way through it. The "joke" style seems to mimic a Zucker film but fails hard. Amy is a one trick pony and I couldn't NOT see her as if she was in an episode of Parks and Rec. I chuckled twice, expected more, got less. LESS THAN ZERO....speaking of which, Less than Zero had more laughs. The director should be shot. It could have been fully with the same script and with out Amy Poledance
2161483
I really wanted to like this movie. But I simply could not get past the split screen format.

Yeah, I got that the split screens were different people's viewpoints, but it was distracting and confusing. For me, a movie has to give me a reason to suspend my disbelief and just go with the story. I admit, I bailed on it this one.

Maybe because I look at film viewing as primarily entertainment, and on delightful, rare occasions, enlightenment. This one film would was like cramming for a final exam. Thanks, but I'll take my popcorn and go elsewhere.
30213
For me, the movie was a failure.  I admit that I laughed a few times.  And, after I'd gotten into the plot, I watched until the end.  I was thinking that Wesley would turn out to be a changling who was the REAL Prince of this Fairy Tale Land, and that Buttercup (a really unlikely name for this particular heroine) would turn out still to be a Princess--HIS princess, since he was her true love.  Mainly, I was hoping for just any kind of enjoyable and uplifting ending that might somehow redeem the movie and make me feel it was worth having watched it.  But, overall, I have to agree with the viewers who gave it only 1 star.  (I mean for content.  There were lots of people who gave it 1 star because of the poor quality of the film technically, the poor color of certain versions of the remakes of the film and that sort of thing--many various film versions having been made.)(Some reviewers complained about sound problems in certain film versions, and I did find that to be true in the 20th Anniversary VHS version that I watched.  Lots of bits of muffled and unclear dialogue.)

This was a silly attempt at a Fairy Tale spoof, which at the same time told seriously a mushy story about sentimentalized "True Love." (At least, I guess that was the movie maker's intention.)  The love story worked pretty well, but the spoof didn't.  The dialogue reminded me of spoofy intellectual dialogue such as in "Pirates of Penzance" by Gilbert and Sullivan, but it wasn't nearly as clever. (I think that some viewers didn't realize that the intention of this movie was to spoof  vengeance and violence, thieving and piratry.  I realized that humor was intended, but the effect that came across was just--for me--a feeling of repulsion with the worst violence, as in the torture scenes, and I found the vengeful intentions of the likable Spaniard were just irritating.  True, unforgiving thoughts obsess a person and play over and over in the mind, but the repetition here came across as pointless.)

The scene in which Billy Crystal caricatured an elderly, Jewish, wizardlike seller of "Miracles" had some clever things, especially after his witchlike wife, Valerie, rushed onto the scene.  I didn't recognize the character as being played by Billy Crystal, saw his name with surprise when the credits rolled by at the end of the movie.

I was puzzled as to what age-level audience the movie would appeal to.  It seemed to be made for children on the verge of adolescence, but the humor of the dialogue was geared to an older, more adult and more sophisticated audience.  I'm really, really surprised to find that so MANY Amazon reviewers of this film have been mostly crazy about it! Probably a lot of it is the cinematography that they like.

After having wasted time watching the movie, I didn't want to spend time reading any but a few of the few 1-star reviews by people that I agreed with! Those helped me feel better--finding that I wasn't the only person in the world who thought this movie was a failure.  Definitely not as good as touted to be.

I found numerous of the characters lovable.  Even the villains.  Especially the giant, whose role and dialogue were mildly funny.  But I felt that all the film intended to accomplish just somehow fell flat and failed.
620497
The movie was mostly strached I wish u would send me another one,  an I would send my movie back.
2228054
Doesn't work well with iPhone 5s.  Also doesn't work well with Google cardboard app.
2153601
the writing style felt very lazy; the constant switching back and forth was a distraction. i think it would have been better off written from omnipresence view and the chapters named for the time span. i also hated the way they said each others name all the time.

while i liked the characters i think some plot points were just thrown in so the story would make sense; example (SPOILERS) tj's cancer, i feel it was only written into the story so that he would be sterile and so she wouldn't get pregnant on the island. other than that and a couple references to the cancer it served no purpose when i thought it was going to be a much bigger and more satisfying part of the story.

tj sounded totally hot so you got me there! i think this would be a better movie than a book, i'm thinking zac efron and emily blunt!
825069
This movie wasn't good to me wish I could get my money back for this.... :(

Wasn't that funny to me
1095691
This was such a terrible movie. It was like a straight to video high school film with great special effects. So So acting with teen cheesy lines. I'm glad I didn't purchase this movie, I rented it from Netflix. lacking in Special features as well, only the standard "Deleted scenes and bloopers" reel. You would think with Blu-Ray disc being able to fit 50GBs of data that most movies would have a behind the scenes documentary. I will say this, if you are going to get it be sure to get the Blu-Ray because there is a huge difference, The animation was amazing. I will give the movie that.

I like this director D.J Curuso, he did Eagle Eye which was a great film. And Timothy Olyphant was good in this, not his best role but he stood out.

In short: Waste of time, but if you really want to see it rent it.
2772763
First very few video formats are supported, and then even some of my AVI movies wouldn't play. It recognized all my AVI files, and it played some of them, but other would only show a black screen, and they all were encoded using the same software.

The iPad/iPhone software user interface is very poorly designed, and it's slow, and it crashes frequently.

I really wanted this to work as I travel frequently and many times just with my iPad and with no computer, and it would be nice to have access to more movies. I'm returning my unit today, I tried to make it work for a few days but i had enough.
4543069
I have to say that the movie could have been way better in many ways. The video,& the characters acting was poorly directed along with the writers decisions in what the actors do,& say. I agree in another review posted,that it seems as if it was done by students in all ways. This movie isn't very long-not counting the credits its roughly about 1hr 15min long. If the writing was done better along with the director and producers decisions in what the characters do,say,decisions made even,& the whole concept of the movie altogether. Though the concepts written in the movies description sounds like it would have been a decent,albeit,horror movie,but its a B- movie at best. Luckily at this point Im getting used to B- movies being made anymore,as theirs in my opinion,not many good movies made in the Sci-Fi,Horror,or Thriller type of movies I tend to like most,even other genres of movies released are beginning to be less and less great as well. Just the occasional good rating of movies are being made anymore.
  Though,I will say that I also have seen movies that are almost identical in story line,even what the actors do,yet sadly aren't remakes as we are beginning to also see done more often even. Some are well done and maybe even done better than the original(but not due to the fact we have CGI type of things available now),and some remakes are done just as bad when in the wrong hands & done by sadly done acting. Which is 1 of the reasons I decided to rate it 3 stars,even though it could have been better And scarier if it were in the right hands to of made the movie better. Granted I do take into account that the actors aren't all terrible,and sometimes I take into consideration they are being paid to be directed in the way that the directors & producers want them to. Makes me wonder how many actors over the years thatd done movies such as like this,& it ended up costing them possibly better careers in the movie business,all because they took a job to do movies that turned out really bad,with bad reviews,& cost them better chances possibly...
  Since this movie was a free one included w/Amazon Prime,it didn't cost me extra to watch,but the overall concept isn't bad and could have done more w/the plot behind the title and the movies beginning to at least show more into it,leading up to the present. Unless you have Amazon Prime as well,it won't cost ya extra to take a chance on maybe watching this movie,though I wouldnt pay more than $2,And thats pushing it for price honestly in even asking customers to pay more for such a short movie....
986197
Overall, not as good as I had hoped for.  If you've seen "Poltergeist" and/or "Paranormal Activity" this movie has elements of both.
The story follows a family who has just moved into a new house and starts experiencing strange occurrences (a story line that has been used way too many times, imo).  Then one of their son's falls into a coma, for no apparent reason.  Bring in the psychic stage left.
Honestly, I would have stopped this movie after 15 minutes in, but I wanted to see where it was going.  Finally stopped it after an hour and 15 minutes.  I didn't care about the ending, and I really should have been on the end of my seat wanting to see the ending.
So, the story wasn't all that great, it lacked uniqueness and depth.  The characters were not that compelling either, and therefore the acting wasn't all that intense (and it should have been based on the scenario they were put into).  The directing, also, was a little ho-hum for a scary intense movie, like this should have been.  Establishing shots are really just boring, in my opinion.
I look to issues with the directing, and mostly, the writing. It needed to be a better story.
I wouldn't buy this for my collection, nor would I watch it again.
3377541
This movie is horrible so wanna know what I did? I made screen-caps of it so I can use the hotty pics of Ralph Fiennes as a slide show as my screen saver and sit at work pretending to be hard at work doing whatever it is I'm supposed to be doing while what I'm really getting up to is watching my number one celebrity crush dressed up like some kind of sheik and then sometimes dressed up like what appears to be a WWI era British soldier of some type.
Whatever. It's better then what I had before which was a slide-show of my sister's newest litter of newborn Pug puppies in some sort of backyard pool with a Disney Tinkerbell motif which always seemed to depress me to no end. My god, Pugs are even ugly at birth.