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Time for a review from someone who has been a member of IMDb for longer than a week and has reviewed more than one movie, unlike all of the reviewers so far that have given this movie great reviews on here....

You know, a skeptic might think that some of those reviews could be bogus.....

Anyway, this movie isn't overly terrible and it isn't great, but after watching it I couldn't recommend it to anyone else to watch. It's just forgettable and bland with nothing to make it stand out from every other similar movie in the genre. It's one of those movies that you watch today, it's forgotten by tomorrow and you never think about it ever again.

There IS NO TWIST like some of the reviewers claim there is, and for the ones screaming "Wesley Snipes is back!" yes he is, for a grand total of around 15 minutes in this 90 minute movie. The cgi effects are adequate but don't expect movie quality, they're more in line with something you'd find on a lower tier TV show.

I was disappointed, I watched this for Wesley because I wanted to see Snipes kicking some alien butt, instead all he did for most of his quarter of an hour screen time was either stare creepily at the kids in the cabin or sit down and deliver exposition to them.

Apart from the lack of Snipes 2 things really ruined this movie for me, firstly, the acting was pretty bad by the 5 college aged kids that were the main focus of the film, in fact it was terrible in places, especially from the blonde guy who was the lead. Secondly, none of the kids characters were developed, at all. To put that into context, the female lead character, if you asked me what kind of person she was all I could answer would be that she's normal and has asthma, apart from that she has no personality, and the sad thing is that I know more about her character than I do 3 out of the other 4 because at least I know she has asthma. Just zero character development, I don't know if they're good, bad, brave, shy, dumb, smart, catty, bullies or what, they're just all blank slates who aren't very good at acting, which made it really hard to care about whether they lived or died.

Even though it's not totally terrible I still wouldn't recommend this, even if it's on free TV there are better ways to spend your time, like cleaning the oven or doing your taxes or digging a hole just so you can fill it in again. 4/10

Possibly the worst sci-fi/horror film I've ever seen. Every cliché from the alien abduction genre is trotted out to dull effect. The acting, if you can call it that, is below the level of a third rate high school production. This was like a lower tier SyFy Channel production with a curse word and tiny bit of skin thrown in with a few splattery gore (mild) f/x to get that R rating. The projection gimmick was an afterthought and added absolutely nothing to the viewing experience. I can honestly say I didn't find one positive thing to say about this very mediocre effort. It's a shame someone with vision, talent, and an original idea didn't have the resources these filmmakers did to turn out something really incredible. An embarrassment for Wesley Snipes. Avoid!

"The Recall" is a sci-fi movie that takes a "been there; done that" premise and puts a different and new spin on things.

Five friends embark on a weekend trip to a cabin in the middle of nowhere for some fun. Unbeknownst to them, the world is under an alien attack and the aliens are looking for certain specimens, i.e. in the form of humans. It seems they want to create the next lineage of people who will inhabit this planet. This premise worked. What didn't work is what you had to go through from point A to point B. Saddled with people who constantly whine and pine about love lost and a Wesley Snipes character that seems thrown in for no reason, those involved simply managed to destroy what could have been a nice little film.

Now, for those of you who gave the film one star because a "homer" reviewed it and gave it 10 stars...SHAME ON YOU. Do you think this is the first time that's been done? It's called promotion. I never go to a movie because it got great reviews. Face it, it is ultimately OUR decision--after we see the movie--to decide what is great and what sucks. Was this particular movie great? Oh, heck no. The plot had some holes you could put your fist through! But to savage it simply because you are offended by tactics used to promote it...well, I think IMDb should have qualifications for people to meet before they can comment on a movie.

Rated "R" for language, brief nudity, and violence. This one is a tossup for me.

Utterly cretinous B-movie with appalling actors, stupid characterization, dumb plot-devices and just all-round ineptitude.

Snipes behaves like a redneck woodsman... except he isn't a redneck. He's a former astronaut, abducted by aliens. Well, at least that's original: most aliens anal-probe cows and farmers, rarely do they pick off NASA's finest. (Or the prison system's finest... coz Wesley...)

The same can't be said for Russia's finest astronuts, i.e. cosmonuts i.e. he isn't so fine: Snipes's Russian buddy for some baffling reason ended up in an American prison. Care to explain that, movie? No, I guess not.

As soon as loverboy sees an alien, he does what? Believe it or not, he starts a fight with blond guy, first a verbal fight than an actual scuffle. Because SOMEHOW seeing aliens turns loverboy into a violent psycho-killer who accidentally shoots his girlfriend - in what is an utterly dumb scene yet somehow very predictable. He then threatens to kill his friends. Fortunately, the aliens realize that he is the bad guy and beam him up just as he is about to once again threaten the others. Because that's what you do when aliens invade: you start hating your friends.

Say what? There's an alien invasion and the "teens" turn on each other? Wut? Who the hell wrote this crap and why were they paid? Were they paid? I hope only in Monopoly money.

In the meantime, for much of the first half, Snipes is shown but almost never heard, never stepping in to help or to offer advice at least. Yet, later on, once the teens are all dead/abducted/crippled he decides to be the hero. Why? Oh right, they were used as "bait". As if Snipes could possibly "lure" these aliens into a trap, or make them do what he wants. The writer must have confused NASA's astronauts with Marvel's superheroes.

When Snipes finally proves himself useful, he catches an alien, TAUNTS it like a child, overacts his hinder off, then kills it.

That's the kind of movie this is. And it's got 25 year-old teens. That too.

The film leaves the best for last: all the abductees are returned to Earth, and the army - once again - are the bad guys, shooting them off. But even that seems unclear: did they get the order to kill them, or did that sergeant (or whatever) make that decision on a whim? It's all so dumb. So pointless. So silly. Unless you consider abducted humans being given Jedi powers a good thing.

An Ancient Aliens plot may sound OK on paper (notice I said OK, not good, because it's so dumb and cliche), but it fails just as badly as every History Channel episode of the said show.

It's just a very dumb and fairly uninteresting film, and nothing I'd suggest even to UFO invasion aficionados.

This film had all the ingredients to be a decent flick. Professional cinematography, pretty good acting, a big name actor with Snipes, but the execution was just terrible. The editing was horrific, the script was poor at best. It was confusing and annoying. How many times can characters fall down and hit their heads??? The special effects were amateurish, and the ending was so bad. You are wasting your time if you watch it.

I was encouraged by the many positive reviews on IMDb and the fact Wesley Snipes was starring in it.

Sadly the reviews must be fake because the film is terrible.

The acting is wooden, the characters are plastic and story is awful.

The alien ship was like something out of Hellraiser.

Based on some other IMDb reviews, I had very low expectations for this. Right off the bat, the vfx made it pretty obvious the budget for this was on the lower end, but I still found myself enjoying it. Wesley Snipes was great as this crazy hunter/hermit character who does taxidermy, and actually gets to stuff one of the aliens (it's a lot funnier than it sounds). The young cast was also pretty good. The cinematography and creature makeup/design were better than you'd normally expect for this kind of film.

But there are definitely a few glaring flaws. The vfx could have been MUCH better and some of the editing was just plain confusing. The movie also clearly borrows elements from Cabin in the Woods and Fire In The Sky, but it does takes a very unsuspected turn near the end.

So I do recommend the movie, but also to checking your expectations before watching it. If you're looking for the next Independence Day or Star Wars, this probably isn't for you. But if you enjoy smaller films with interesting ideas, quirky characters and a little humor, you'll most likely have a good time.

I'm going to sum this up with

Alien 1 (Fred) "Soooo, it's your turn to bathe the humans."

Alien 2 (Paul) "My turn AGAIN? I did it last time."

Fred "Well, it's technically it's Charles turn but-"

Paul "Ooooohhhh... actually, what did become of him?"

Fred "Well, you remember that human...uh...thing... sword or whatever it's name was?"

Paul. " Oh Bla-oh ...uh, THAT Charles guy?"

Fred "Yeah."

Paul. "The Charles that got really prickly, spoiled that human too much and was never seen again?"

Fred "Yep. That Charles. I heard he's still hanging out with the human."

Ok, ok. So, it's not a great movie but I was really amused by how ridiculous it was. There are aliens, the Scooby Doo crowd, an ex military astronaut and fancy baths. Would I watch it again? If I was having a friend watch it and I wanted to watch their reaction more than the movie? Hell yeah, I would watch it again!