I have heard a lot about this movie, have seen the trailer a few times, and it looked interesting. So being a fan of Mila Jovovich I thought I would give it a try. And having watched it, I honestly think that Universal is running low on money, and are out of good ideas, since they have to go down to this level.
First of all: the plot. So at the start of the movie we are treated to a message from Mila Jovovich. She says the movie was based on factual events, and that she portrays a psychologist Dr. Abigail Tyler who this story follows. And that was supposed to intrigue the viewer, and on some level it succeeds. And then we are told that the director included real life footage. Why don’t just make a documentary?!
The makers try to show the movie and the actual footage at the same time as to say: Yeah, we didn’t make this up, that’s exactly what happened”. To me it failed miserably. Although the “actual” Dr. Abigail Tyler looks as though she had just escaped from an asylum, other than that, the footage doesn’t look real at all. Dr. Tyler tries to convince us that in a little town called Nome in Alaska, something (Sumerian speaking, owl like aliens) are abducting people, then apparently conduct research on them and return them, only to make them commit suicide( I’m serious!). The abduction most of the time occurs at night at precisely 3:33 or otherwise whenever suits them. I think the screen writers or the director wanted it to be a horror of sorts (at least that’s what it says on the box), but the stories to me didn’t make much sense. Some of the patients say it has been happening to them since they were young, yet the suicide doesn’t occur until Dr. Tyler starts investigating. To add to the already convincing story, Dr Tyler is accused by a local sheriff of somehow contributing to the evil that gripped Nome (at some point the sheriff, being a man of high IQ I’m sure, suggests Dr. Tyler lifted a man and broke three of his vertebrae injuring his spine).
There are no scary or even jumpy moments at all. The music that usually helps to set the mood in movies like that, is barely there. Overall I don’t know why I even bothered. Oh no, I do, I wanted to know if the actual footage was really real! Well, to save you the search, I asked my trusted friend (his name is Google but I call him G), and as far as Nome is concerned, there were no weird disappearances or abductions like the movie claims. So there it is.
Watch it if you’re curious or like UFO theories, but to someone who wants to see some horror/action/suspense just go and look elsewhere.