Tape 407 (2012)

Overrated

What a freaking movie. So many twists and turns. Absolutely intense from start to finish.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

This is another hand held camera, so it must be real film. Two sisters are flying on New Year's eve from NY to LA. The younger sister Trish (Abigail Schrader) is filming everything which allows some minor character introduction. It was so authentic, it was boring. It just so happens there is a professional journalist on board with a powerful light so he can shoot video at night. His ability to hold the camera still leaves much to be desired.Once the plane crashes (description of film) one passenger Charley (Brendan Patrick Connor) provides for the internal conflict. There is a woman marshal on board (Everette Wallin) so there is someone with a gun. Fear and terror are generated by shaking the camera real fast and having everyone scream and shout at the same time. This worked better than the occasional glimpse of the rubber headed dinosaur looking predator.They crash in the land of "it is always dark" and they keep filming with a light that would attract predators. Everyone has various amounts of bright red blood on them.This movie reminded me of "Chernobyl Diaries" in its basic formula. What you thought about "Chernobyl Diaries" will determine if you like this one. I didn't like the "Chernobyl Diaries."PARENTAL GUIDE: F-bombs, no sex, no nudity.

If they made this movie in three days it is excellent-if they made it in three months its maybe not so great. It gets annoying as the film nears the halfway point as they keep fighting verbally amongst themselves regarding what the next course of action should be. You eventually feel like yelling at the screen due to all the waffling around on screen. Fair premise if not a bit implausible in this day and age. Fair acting and all the rest of it but it really does boil down to how long they took doing it. It sort of looks like a student film more than a professional film despite the fact it starts in an airliner. Most of the passengers appear to be female. The script could have been a bit better and they could have waffled around less. Waffling is annoying. Don't waffle. Even if waffling might seem like a good idea at the time. It probably isn't. Waffling that is. As in don't waffle. Even if you think they might taste good with syrup. Eat waffles. Don't waffle. Is this waffling? It might be a form of waffling. Then again it might not. That's what the film is like.

It's disorienting at first to watch due to the style of shooting and I found it hard to believe that they shot the film entirely in this way, but once you get used to it (about 1/3 of the way through for me and I don't particularly care for this style) it's actually a good movie. You get to know the characters - you like most of them and you want them to survive. It just takes a little while to get over the shaky, hand-held camera approach. But you have to give them credit for being able to shoot an entire 90 minute film using this approach. It's low budget, sure, but look what they accomplished with it. I was scared in a few places and I felt sad to see some of them killed. I say, well done to the makers and actors who ad libbed the lines and completed the film so quickly.

This movie is terrible to watch till the end. Reading the summary, it seemed a good story. Unfortunately, this is not what the viewer gets when he watches. The characters acts without any logic (e.g: There were 4 of them in the car, one tries to escape by foot to get the attention of the animal that chased them; then another one go out the car to rescue the first one, but the car was working fine! So, the two that remained in car drove for 1 minute, ran over one that had left and the other returned to the car. They drove 1 minute more and arrived where they wanted. Why were not the 4 in the car?) I could give dozens of examples like this. The plot is totally disconnected, the end is predictable and silly. well, run out this movie!