The Phoenix Incident

I've watched the movie because i have always believed there is more than us here or come here etc. The time line of when this happen and what i saw about this same time and when i saw some of the pics of the flying objects i couldn't believe what i saw they were the exact thing or so darn close it scared me. I went to work working nights one evening i headed down the highway around 11pm heading to the hospital on ft stewart where i worked night shift I had 14 plus military years 3 honerable discharges known many Military personnel and have seen much but what i saw on my way to work was not something that happens as i was driving i saw far off to my left toward the ocean there was a low light in the sky i always look because to verify if a plane by a blinking light there was none just bright lights it was heading west by the time i crossed the highway 80 and headed south toward I -16 this craft had turned and there was several open fields between me and the highway and some small tree lines.All of a sudden this air craft appeared and it was just over the tree line, iam so curious hanging out my window and looking i could see the complete bottom and nothing but lights and the biggest thing that amazed me there was no sound if i could be put to sleep i could give a complete discrption of this craft only wishing i could of got pics by the time i hit the over pass to I-16 it turned and headed back out east toward the ocean and disappeared got to work shooken asking everyone on the military base i knew if there was anything we had that could do this and have no sound ever. The answer was NO and this was at the same year and time all this went down

I really had high hopes for this movie as I had just watched Phoenix Forgotten and I thought maybe this would be as interesting or even better... But it's not even close. There are too many technical errors and storytelling errors to enjoy it.

Things that I found were wrong with this movie:

-The classic footage is not 4:3 and the aging effect is not realistic -The characters aren't interesting -While filming the Phoenix Lights they suddenly start filming themselves instead of the UFO sighting. Who would actually do that? -The aliens are bad CGI and look like the xenomorph from the 'Alien' movies -The news channels have names that don't make sense, very unconvincing -There are too many camera angles. Also too many cameras in Gayson's place. Why does he have all those security cameras? Also it's 1997! -Gayson's theories and everything he says doesn't fit the movie. There is some Heaven's Gate mixed in ("recycling the Earth", the bunk beds in his compound, the portrait of the Alien is the exact same that 'Do' from Heaven's Gate had and don't look anything like the aliens in the movie) and it all doesn't fit the movie because the aliens aren't even trying to get them alive, they for no reason seem to kill them and then take them, and they are not stealthy at all at doing it. -One of the guys shuts the trunk in a hurry and leaves a camera in the trunk?

There are so many things in this movie that don't make any sense. If you're gonna watch a found footage Phoenix Lights movie, watch the 2017 Phoenix Forgotten. It's way more enjoyable and has character development.

In fact, the best thing about this is the creature design and the spaceships design, like both of it. Seemed cool, realistic and scary.

Most of the rest was boring and repetitive, with stupid characters and boring and predictable conversations simulating a documentary.

well, found footage movies are usually cheap and nasty affairs and the shaky camera is used to cover bad directing.

This one is different, the characters are believable, the effects are good and the directing is smooth and enjoyable. and here comes the BUT the go pro style footage is far too shaky and swinging, certain segments of the movie are completely unwatchable due to this and mildly nausea inducing.

The characters have lucid moments and are friendly and believable but start screaming and shouting in a manner that is unbelievable and ruins any form connection you have with them.

Nothing new and needs refining

I have seen many found footage movies and some of them are quite good, as they 1. allow the viewer to get an idea of the whole scenery and 2. as they give your eyes some calm moments. The viewer needs time to understand what's actually going on!

This movies doesn't do anything of that. It's really hard work to watch the found footage scenes, so shaky, the image even switches off completely for many times, the cam crashes against walls and the ground with wild movements, a tour de force for your eyes, so much that it gets really annoying. I wanted to shout out loud: stop finally moving!

While the story could have been very exciting (the basic idea is not bad), the 4 main characters sometimes behave like crazy. Just imagine someone dangerous follows you in the dark. And your first reaction is: shout as loud as possible, speak loudly, use your torch to show everyone within the next 2 miles where you are, and that ALL the time.That's what these 4 guys do. So empathy has no chance to grow for them. After a while of watching I thought: just stop filming guys and get caught finally.

The pseudo-documentary style of the movie is OK, if you like that kind of movie. To me it's a little bit too much of history channel's "the secret alien files" kind of stuff: the camera, the editing, the light of the interview scenes - just the way those scenes are made I have seen before too many times on TV. The director clearly needs to find a way to make his individual kind of movie. Now it's just a collection of copied elements. Truly better than "sharknado", but not much better than every pseudo-documentary on TV.