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If you're seeing this film and expecting something spectacular like Casablanca or Citizen Kane, that's not going to happen. This film isn't meant to be great, but made for those who like something a bit scary. It really isn't too bad of a film once it gets going.It starts out slow and stumbles a bit, that's true, but in the second half it picks up. It gets interesting once the characters are inside Area 51. From there, it's hard to look away, not knowing what to expect. It was definitely different, but not great and not terrible either.

The film was a cut above the rest of the usual hand held found footage horror films. The Area 51 itself was interesting and they had some cool special FX. The downside is the camera shaking all the time which makes it very annoying to watch. Beside that I enjoyed it.

AREA 51 is a typical kind of found footage movie, watchable enough but not offering anything up that hasn't been done a million times before. A bunch of kids decide to head off and infiltrate Area 51 to find out if they can uncover evidence of extraterrestrial life, but of course there are the usual surprises in store for them. Much of the running time smacks of padding and there's only real substance at the climax, but even then it feels like a sci-fi focused BLAIR WITCH re-run.