The stereotypes about found-in-sewage films having a meager plot and too many wobbly scenes are confirmed here, the film's big flaw. I can even get past the wobbliness, but the story makes absolutely no sense at all.
Is that area controlled by the army or the aliens? It can't be aliens working with the army (as is perhaps suggested by the last scenes) because one helicopter is downed. When Abbie Salt (looking very purrty) and the skinny guy enter the secret base how come there is nobody there except a few infected bodies? Where's the personnel, be it alien or human? Everything would indicate that the base is run by humans, but since when are secret gov't bases run without humans?
Regardless how you twist or bend the very thin facts, nothing adds up even half-way logically. It's all just one big nonsensical hide-and-seek-o-rama - a typical enough ploy in alien-abduction flicks - but this time taken to the extreme. To the extent where the viewer is literally as confused as the protagonists aimlessly wondering around.
It's a pity the plot is so dumb and random, because the mood isn't bad, especially at the base. It doesn't speak well for the writer(?) if he couldn't even manage to devise a thin, basic plot to accompany the action - which mostly consists of three people aimlessly wondering through the forest arguing. There is a limit to how much mystery upon mystery upon mystery you can layer atop itself until the entire thing crumbles like a deck of cards, like the joke that it is. A plot can be forgiven for certain types of flaws and for a certain quantity of nonsense, but not for being totally incoherent. All we know is that an infection is being tested on humans and animals. Who is doing it, for what reason, what's the government's role, what's the aliens' role, what's the purpose, why is the base abandoned yet has fresh guinea-pigs - none of those things are remotely answered.
Besides, how come none of the three people were shocked or at least worried about seeing so many animals dead on a field, before deciding to trespass on a piece of property nearby? Is it possible that the writer(?) believes that this is how average people react to such a discovery?
Is that area controlled by the army or the aliens? It can't be aliens working with the army (as is perhaps suggested by the last scenes) because one helicopter is downed. When Abbie Salt (looking very purrty) and the skinny guy enter the secret base how come there is nobody there except a few infected bodies? Where's the personnel, be it alien or human? Everything would indicate that the base is run by humans, but since when are secret gov't bases run without humans?
Regardless how you twist or bend the very thin facts, nothing adds up even half-way logically. It's all just one big nonsensical hide-and-seek-o-rama - a typical enough ploy in alien-abduction flicks - but this time taken to the extreme. To the extent where the viewer is literally as confused as the protagonists aimlessly wondering around.
It's a pity the plot is so dumb and random, because the mood isn't bad, especially at the base. It doesn't speak well for the writer(?) if he couldn't even manage to devise a thin, basic plot to accompany the action - which mostly consists of three people aimlessly wondering through the forest arguing. There is a limit to how much mystery upon mystery upon mystery you can layer atop itself until the entire thing crumbles like a deck of cards, like the joke that it is. A plot can be forgiven for certain types of flaws and for a certain quantity of nonsense, but not for being totally incoherent. All we know is that an infection is being tested on humans and animals. Who is doing it, for what reason, what's the government's role, what's the aliens' role, what's the purpose, why is the base abandoned yet has fresh guinea-pigs - none of those things are remotely answered.
Besides, how come none of the three people were shocked or at least worried about seeing so many animals dead on a field, before deciding to trespass on a piece of property nearby? Is it possible that the writer(?) believes that this is how average people react to such a discovery?