ALIEN ORIGIN

A journalist with her crew obtains permission to follow a military operation in Belize. Documenting everything with cameras, the journalist will film the soldiers as they venture into the jungle where they will make some unusual discoveries, such as a video of some scientists who, following an extraordinary find, would be able to explain the origin of life on earth and its connection with an alien entity. Asylum is an American distribution company specializing in very low-budget films, characterized by imitating highly successful films released previously. Some known examples are "Paranormal Entity", "Snakes on a Train" and "Mega Piranha", all imitations of the much more famous original films. The weak point of these productions (and at the same time their strong point) is the poor, in fact, terrible quality of every technical and acting aspect. Summarizing with a paradox, they are films so bad and insipid that they achieve enormous success. Perhaps because of the often catchy title, perhaps because of the always inviting cover or simply for the taste of the horrid, there are many people who dare to embark on an Asylum adventure. But there are two possibilities in front of a film of this kind: either after one minute you change the channel or, intrigued and with great difficulty, you watch the film until the end, to see how low they can go and to have a good laugh. "Alien Origin" is no exception, it's a piece of crap of biblical proportions that, probably trying to ride the wave of success of "Prometheus", does not deviate from the average of the other productions. In fact, comparing it with other creations of the house, one can almost certainly affirm that it is one of the worst. While other films boasted of crude digital effects like flying sharks of tens of meters or catastrophic storms, in "Alien Origin" we are faced with an hour and a half of absolute nothing, no surprise, no moment of tension and above all, no laughter, not even hysterical. Being a found footage based on the idea of showing nothing, a sort of "Predator" for the poor has come out where a group of soldiers, whose acting is credible like that of a kindergarten play, venture into the woods with rifles ready, doing nothing but looking upwards. Every now and then one of these absurd soldiers thinks he has seen something in the bushes, "Everyone stop, attention, stay calm" to then return to the most desolate nothing. But the surprise is yet to come. As the title of the film suggests, it should be about aliens. In fact, there are strange things, like a boat in the middle of the jungle that one does not understand how it got there, or the discovery of a video showing a strange (not much more than that) skull. Ah yes, there is also a spaceship (or something similar) that proposes to us for about twenty minutes what we have seen so far in the jungle, that is, soldiers who turn with rifles ready and look upwards. If the forest is at least credible (although with absolute certainty it was a forest behind the producer's house of the film), the spaceship is a set of noisy tubes with some green and red lights. When something happens, suddenly the camera stops transmitting clearly. The viewer who has watched the film up to that point, only to see a little green man, a monster full of tentacles or a poorly made digital creature, will actually witness a series of disturbances, like those that a microwave in operation causes to a television. It is difficult to think of something worse than "Alien Origin", a film of incommensurable mediocrity but Asylum fans might appreciate it.