Evidence

This film is a mess. By the time all the details have been revealed, I could not have cared less. I generally will watch found footage films, even though I am often disappointed, however I don't remember being less interested in a found footage film than I was in this one. I was interested in seeing this film, I enjoyed "The Fourth Kind" (the director's previous effort) and I like the actors in the film.

I found myself unable to get involved in the plot and it just did not generate any suspense which is vital for a found footage film. Whatever kind of film you are making, you are trying to tell a story and if you lose viewers at the beginning it's awful difficult to get them back interested. Hopefully, the director's next effort will be more successful. All I can say is skip this one!

What a start this film has. A frozen picture of a crime scene, taken by a low flying drone camera, like nothing I've seen. A bit was resembling the 2001-film Swordfish, but still this was amazing. It immediately lit my interests immensely. Some obviously CGI, but still a haunting start!

This is another take on the found footage genre. But different. Some kind of meta theme in the footage as well. This is evidence found on a couple of phones and video cameras at a crime scene. At the start of the film we get a glimpse of what have happened, but what lead up to it. No one at the crime scene is alive to give any explanation. The tape shows a group of youngsters arriving at a desolated place with a lot if abandoned trucks and houses.

Like most found footage, this is both annoying and exciting at the same time. A genre difficult to immediately like, but still interesting in many ways.

The fourth outing from American director Olatunde Osunsanmi, and the first I've seen. Though there's a lot of cameras around, there's a lot of not so likely here towards the end, before whole film takes a twist, making it more likely after all.

Smart film, with an interesting plot. A good, twisting found footage flick, most of all recommended to the fans of the genre.

Although, to be fair, it tries its best to do something different. By now everyone who's vaguely into horror films will be aware of the B-movie dumping ground which is the 'found footage' genre. You get the first half of the film where you meet whichever shallow, one-dimensional characters are about to get killed in the second act. Then, towards the end, there's plenty of shaky camera-work and holding the camera right up close into people's faces.

Here, we have all that, only it's made clear at the beginning of the film that everyone has died in some weird massacre at a petrol station in a lonely part of America and we have 'proper' film-making where we see the detectives watching the footage recovered from the crime scene. Therefore you have the obligatory character who just won't put the damn camera down. No matter how many people are chopped up in front of her, she still insists on filming every last second for... well, because the movie wouldn't work unless she did, right? 'Evidence' sells itself as 'not just a found footage film' because there are segments of film where it's not found footage. However, despite the bits with the officers being filmed 'normally' the movie could probably have been made without them.

Yeah, you get a little more to the story than just the regular shaky camera and people running through woods in the dark, bur, ultimately, there's not that much more here than your average (or VERY average) found footage film.

If you're a fan of the genre in general then you might like this. If you're bored of found footage then there's not an awful lot here that will change your mind.

Still shot. 3D rotation. Smoke. A crime scene. Then a video camera being placed in a plastic bag marked "evidence". And you know: it's going to be one of those god damned hand-held camera movies. But you are a nice person and you hope, still, that there have to be good shaky cam films. You are, sadly, terribly so, wrong.

I really like Radha Mitchell, I mean, who doesn't, but she is past her prime - time to play in those motherly roles in bad haunted house movies. Stephen Moyer, having won an undeserved fame with True Blood, plays an unnecessarily troubled police/video specialist. None of these two roles is going to give you any satisfaction in what is supposed to be a twist laden thriller.

The story, which I make my best effort not to spoil - I don't know why, is basically a chaotic investigation based on a single videotape. Then there is the twist, one that you have expected the entire movie, because it can't be that easy. And it's not, and it's a stupid twist, and you will swear the day you decided to watch this film, even on fast forward.

So, if there would have been true empathy with the characters - after all they did make the effort of filling the first third of the film with motivational video on how needy were the girls and how much they wanted to enter showbiz, if there would have been any interest in the police procedure - which unfortunately only concerned media statements and video processing, if the entire story didn't reek of "wait for it! the grand finale!", well... it still would have been a crappy film. As such, it is worst than boring and less than funny.

Bottom line: I do this so you shouldn't have to. Respect my sacrifice and avoid this film.

starts out semi interesting and it all goes down hill. every once in a while something happens that gets your interest and keeps you from dozing off. unfortunately you start snoozing again just to snap out of your slumber just long enough to open your eyes for a moment. like other reviews that says this movie is not on par with good movies is correct. total watchable parts of the movie is about 5-6 minutes long, the rest is a wast of time and space. think about what makes a good movie and then wonder why this has none of that stuff in it. they could of made this film a lot more fun if they showed some nudity or had humor, drama, good dialogue? just about anything would of made this movie almost memorably for more then the time spent watching it.

you been warned