Unaware (2013)

Touches You

Memorable, crazy movie

Lack of good storyline.

Fresh and Exciting

I am normally an open minded fan of fan footage movies. I typically give generous 10 star reviews of indie movies that make up for low budget with competent acting and original story lines.Unfortunately, this movie was neither original nor well executed. It was boring and predictable. I about puked in the middle thanks to the shaky camera lens and loud background noises. I didn't expect much from the acting but the characters were so poorly written that it good acting might not have made a difference anyway. The special effects were okay for the most part, except for the alien which looked like a guy wearing a lizard suit.This is where I'm going to spoil the movie for you so you don't have to watch it. Here is the plot in a nutshell: 1. Couple goes to surprise visit Dude's family, which are conveniently not home. They decide to find a way into the house and stay anyway.2. Dude and Dudette do cutesy couple stuff before Dude realizes he wants to snoop in his grandfather's barn which has been labeled off limits since his childhood.3. Dude and Dudette spend gobs of time searching through predictable clues about aliens like top secret letters and outdated military electronics. They walk back and forth between the barn and the house like ten times because they need the Internet and can't put two and two together by themselves.4. Dude and Dudette try to call the FBI and report the alien. Hilarious scene where the alien shows up in the window. Oooh. Ahh. Yikes! How scary! (not) 5. The ending is so Blair Witch - lots of screams and shadows. Person in the lizard suit runs toward the camera all menacingly and apparently drags Dudette off caveman style before being beamed back onto the mothership. The ending scene is ridiculously vague and implies that Dude is either murdered or kidnapped by Men in Black who are there to cover the whole thing up.As you can see, you are not missing much if you skip this movie. The funny thing was, when I first heard about this movie I really wanted to watch it. I thought it was going to be a close encounters kind of movie, which it's not. In any case, don't waste eighty minutes of your life unless you want to get sick.

Slowest start and a weak attempt at building anticipation. Talking for long long LONG scenes about the barn being off limits, for example. We got its importance the first time. And building it up and having them go in and just. talk. more. when they do finally get into the barn is not the way to capture an audience's attention.This movie seemed ad libbed in many of the scenes, and unfortunately, the actors just didn't have the skills to pull it off. It didn't help that they were given "Female Character" and "Male Character" as personalities, either.The first twenty minutes actually felt like watching a home video of a slightly boring couple. They talk about Roy and the barn a lot, but it is repetitive and annoying, rather than working us towards any kind of interest or dread. It also fell into the biggest trap of found footage movies. I'm sure it must be really hard to shoot a movie that looks professional while also appearing to be shot by amateurs. It must be hard, since so few movies can do it well (The Borderlands was good at this, as was the otherwise horrifying Skinwalkers Ranch). The shaky camera, losing focus, the weird tracking thing that I didn't think happened on digital cameras, setting the camera down at uncomfortable angles, the static, having half the movie shot in the dark are all unnecessary and detract from the movie. A few of these things could bring us into the premise of the movie. Having all of them makes the movie impossible to watch. It is worse than having it shot in a traditional way. (At 35 minutes, I have written this review up to this point, and nothing has happened in this movie. This review is now the only thing keeping me sane.) There are three or four conversations at this point that they've had multiple times. That is absolutely unnecessary, and I don't understand how anyone watched this edit and thought, yes, this is great, we should release this.They shouldn't have released it. "LOOKS LIKE ITS FROM THE WHITE HOUSE"Is this a primary school play. Could you beat us over the head with this plot any harder. I may not understand what's happening yet. 45 minutes of barn talk hasn't been enough to give me a back-story to this inane plot. Please. Explain more. Hopefully for the rest of the hour twenty."Let's not get ahead of ourselves"No. At 45 minutes, you are absolutely behind yourselves. You are licking your own butts. NOTHING HAS OCCURRED. "HIS ADVENTURES DRIVE ME NUTS"He's gone into a barn. Three times. His grandfather's barn. His grandfather's papers. Wow, son. Calm down before you hurt yourself. That is a wild life you're leading. Watching TV and sleeping and looking in a barn.This movie only makes sense if they are aliens.ooo I hope they are aliens.They see a dead thing in an old box and proceed to freak out. As if maybe that will convince me that this movie is worth watching. Maybe if the actors pretend this is a big deal, the audience will be convinced that something is actually happening! I, however, am not that easily fooled. I know there's nothing happening because I have spent the last 58 minutes watch nothing happen.I don't think they're aliens.He goes on about his grandfather being his only family, but doesn't wait four hours for him to get home to explain the barn before calling the FBI. "This is a very. serious. situation." No, its not. You found some old stuff in a barn. This is how they try to build anticipation. Now, we have to go and look in the barn before the cops get here! We don't want to get my grandfather in trouble! Who knows what else is in there! If you didn't want to implicate your grandfather, you could have, oh, not called the FBI?They have been arguing for the past ten minutes about going to the barn. She, the nagging wife before they even get married. He, to stalwart man trying to defend his grandfather from the FBI he called on him.I'm hoping this movie is a joke, because otherwise people watched this and thought it was good. and that. That is so sad.They've spent more of this movie talking about going to the barn than being in it, which is frankly ridiculous as they've gone into it five times. FIVE TIMES. "What is that? What the f* is that?"I have no idea, since you are shooting it in the dark with a blurry camera at 200 yards. However, having since seen it closer in the next ten minutes of the movie, I'm pretty sure its a guy in a rubber suit.I'm glad you both went missing. I only wish it had happened 120 minutes ago.TL;DR There is slow build and then there is this plodding excuse for a movie. Terrible cinematography, writing, pacing and acting just add to mind-numbing redundancy of this 120 minutes. Avoid.

I was attracted to this film as it seemed to have garnered s handful of awards and was hoping this was some undiscovered gem of a horror film it ain't The found footage sub-genre can produce some good films The Collinswood Story being a memorable one and the VHS anthology films but sadly this offers nothing really new sometimes found footage can offer good or inspired shot compositions - in this we have views of a house and a barn....zzzz the acting was clunky at best ...the female lead was annoying - the male lead had a certain charm though the plot was standard fare but became absurd once they discover whats in the barn - the fact that they discover it there is the most absurd thing now for the most important part....the scares and atmosphere....apart from the end 10 minutes or so, it was lacking save your time and give this film a miss as there are far better found footage films out there

Another one of those found footage movies , I have been looking forward to this movie since the trailer came out. The trailer seem great however this as got to be one the BIGGEST Disappointment's Ever! (I love most found footage movies.This as got to be the most boring-est and dullest movie I have ever sat thought, there nothing really happens until hour into the movie. Little things were like over in an flash and then panic and then it's calm down for again until last five minutes of the movie, where the movie start going and of course ends! The scenes was okay but nothing great at all as there were no suspense in this movie at all, not sure what to thing of the Alien. I felt I seen this done before and better in Alien Abduction: The McPherson Tape (Which was not great but still miles better then this movie) And what hell was the point of that end of Credit scene, Blue sky! The acting was wooden at times by lead Male, the Girl scream was good! One of the worst and dullest of them Found footage movies (I have seen more then few)3/10 Very, Very, VERY! Poor!