Area 407

Let me start this off by saying I'm not associated with this movie nor was I paid for this review.If you didn't know, this movie was made in 5 days and the actors ad libbed from start to finish. To me, it was A LOT more realistic than 99 percent of found footage dialogue. Yes, some scenes are cringe because there's times when a script would have been better to have. I know a lot of reviewers complained about all the arguing but it's pretty much what would probably happen in a situation like that. You're stressed, scared, confused, and possibly injured so you aren't going to be thinking rationally. People panic which is why stupid decisions are made. The reason I gave this 4 stars is because it doesn't spend a half hour to an hour showing people vlog, doing every day mundane crap. There's too many found footage movies that do that. The plot was mostly original and had a few scenes that were really good but the ending was so predictable. I took away a star because of the CGI and the monster reveal. You can tell amateur from pro and few people ever pull it off. Learn about CGI BEFORE you use it. What they chose for the monster was the stupidest thing I've ever seen. In this case, not showing more than a frame here and a frame there would have been better. I think they worked really well with what they had. (Minus the monster) I don't regret watching it but wouldn't watch it again. I would recommend this movie to anyone that likes found footage.

...however, I was pleasantly surprised. I rather enjoy the "found footage" genre, but the story lines appear to have been done to death. A documentary crew was filming in an abandoned insane asylum... Yawn... However, when I saw the trailer for "Area 407," the first thing I thought was "Hey! Not an abandoned asylum!" The dinosaur in the trailer was a dead giveaway, but still, I held out hope that this wouldn't be, as I mentioned in my subject line, a "Poor Man's 'Jurassic Park.'"Well, I can understand my fellow reviewers' frustrations, but I still liked "Area 407." It definitely wasn't the worst movie I have ever seen, and for a ScyFy (sp?) flick it wasn't bad. The Charlie character was indeed, as one reviewer put it, a caricature, the typical obnoxious air traveler who paid good money to fly, so damn it, "I want a drink." And one of the main characters, the young Trish, was adorable as can be but quickly became extremely annoying. Still, there was some character development. And I was rather surprised to see the DeLaurentiis name on this film. (Any relation to Dino?)I bought the cheapest copy I could find in order to, uh, minimize the damage in case I ended up hating the movie. I'm happy to say, this was not the case. The "found footage" genre will eventually run its course, but until then, I will continue to look for hidden gems among the lumps of coal.

I could not finish this movie due to the constant motion of the person(s) filming with a hand held camera. Less than half way through I had to stop watching. I now have a raging headache.

Going into this, i had pretty low expectations, mostly because of the reviews on here, and maybe that helped but i loved this. The acting was really good and convincing, and although i'm starting to really wear down on these found footage movies, they did a pretty good job on this. Lots of tension in this too, kept me on the edge of my seat. The movie is about a plane heading to Las Angeles, the plane hits some turbulence and ends up crashing. They end up crashing into a secret government area, where there just happens to be dinosaurs on the loose. A few things i didn't like were the fact that you never find out why there are dinosaurs there, some sort of story other than it being a government area would have been nice, but it didn't take away from the fun of the movie. I would have liked to have seen more of the dinosaurs too, since you barely see them other than really quick flashes and a brief moment at the end, when you find out there are dinosaurs alive, a moment where they see them and are in awe would have been nice, although again, it didn't really take away from it that much, not seeing them much added to the fear factor of it. Overall i really liked it and i would suggest watching it to anybody!

great intense movie- the ending kinda sucked, but it's an ending. 1st watch 10/28/2022.

OK, I have to say that shooting this film over 5 days and having the actors ad lib all their dialogue was pretty impressive—brings back the guerilla-style film making of Blair Witch Project. And I suppose all the yelling, over-the-top anger, and talking over each other would be pretty close to what would happen given the situation. But there was no real payoff, no real explanation as to why they were being chased, and why what happened to them happened in the end. But it occupied my attention for almost the entire run time. I skipped over some of the last 20 minutes (and apparently missed some deaths since when I started again only two characters were left).

I was actually kind of interested when I had seen the preview on Movies On Demand but I was NOT paying 6.99$ to see it especially seeing how it was one of those shaky camera movies so when i saw it was 3.99 here on Amazon I said why not try it out. The Girl holding the camera at the beginning of the movie was ABSOLUTLY ANNOYING i wanted to choke her to death with that voice.The entire movie it was Just everyone screaming at the top of thier lungs, talking over each other it was impossible to hear what everyone was trying to say! The story line itself was good in my opinion. The crashing of the plane was scary and believable. it was scary at some points because it was randomly loud and there was a good twist to the ending. overall it was like a SCI-FI channel movie, the best of the worst but actually kinda interesting. Worth giving a try but never to buy on DVD lol

low budget, BUT....quite unusual. worthy of a one timer, predictable ending, but comes in an unexpectedly interesting final stab through the heart .

Als Dinofan habe ich ein klein wenig über dieses neuste Found-Footage Material gefreut. Nachdem ich auch schon von Dinosaur Project recht enttäuscht war (Dabei hatte dieser soviel Potential) hat mich dieser noch mehr enttäuscht.Seit einiger Zeit wieder ein FSK 18 Dino-Film und dann auch noch ein Found-Footage Film. Leider finde ich dieses Genre auch sehr lächerlich weil man durch diese unrealistischen und stellenweise demotivierenden "Amateuraufnahmen" nur noch lächerlich macht.Während der Aufbau der Story im Flugzeug recht lahm ist und fast nur aus dämlichen Kommentaren einer pubertierenden Göre besteht, rettet der Rest des Films das ganze auch nicht. Die Charaktere sind auch einfach nur blöde in der Birne. Handeln eifach nur zu stümperhaft und dumm, was einen nur noch den Kopf schütteln lässt. Irgendwann finden sich diese in einer verlassenen Hüte wieder. Es scheint etwas Zeit vergangen zu sein. Irgendwann bemerkt einer der Darsteller: "Was ist das?" Gemeint ist damit eine Kiste, die in der Ecke steht und dem Zuschauer schon längst aufgefallen ist. In der Kiste befinden sich Taschenlampen. Oi.Zu den Protagonisten kann ich nur den allseits bekannten Andreas aus Frauentausch zitieren: "Entweder seid ihr blind auf beiden Augen oder einfach nur blöd!" Beides trifft aus diesem Zitat zu.Man merkt auch, dass das Budget gefehlt hat, denn die meiste Zeit spielt der Film im dunkeln. Auch das sogenannte "Militärgelände" besteht aus einem Maschendrahtzaun vom Baumarkt und der einizge vom Militär, der darin vorkommt sieht auch nicht gerade wie ein Soldat aus.Der Dino besteht zum Großteil aus einem Kopf, einem Schwanz, irgendwan ist dort eine Attrappe, die am Fenster vorbeihuscht und wie schon bereits im Trailer zu sehen einem 1,5 Sekunden lnger auftritt eines CGI-Dinos, welcher gar nicht mal so schlecht war und auch ehrlich gesagt, hat dieser mit seinem Auftritt, überrascht.Das Ende war halt eben nur wegen dem CGI-Dino überraschend, weil dieser und sein Auftritt recht gelungen ist, abr der Rest des Films ist einfach nur lächerlich.Nur wegen dem Dino gebe ich 2 Sterne, ansonsten hat der Film nicht mal 1 Stern verdient. Er stößt nicht einmal den Dinosaur Project von dem Found-Footage Thron im Bereich Dinosaurier (obwohl dieser auch ein Schuss in den Ofen war). Da gab es mehr Dino zu sehen fürs Geld.