Needless to say that I had actually never heard about this 2022 horror sci-fi movie titled "The Area 51 Incident", prior to stumbling upon it by random chance here in 2024. And of course, with it being a horror movie of sorts, and a movie that I hadn't already seen, then I opted to sit down and give director Rhys Frake-Waterfield's 2022 movie a fair chance.
Truth be told, I virtually had no idea what I was in for here. So writers Tom Jolliffe, Rhys Frake-Waterfield and Scott Chambers had every opportunity readily available to impress and entertain me with "The Area 51 Incident". But I have to admit that I wasn't really harboring the biggest of expectations to the movie, given the movie's dubious cover.
The storyline was pretty straightforward, but actually at the same time it wasn't anything overly noteworthy or particularly interesting. It was a rather mundane, if not actually bland, script and storyline that the writers concocted for the movie. Sort of a very standard alien invasion type of movie, in the likes of "Alien", except not as entertaining or memorable. The movie was sort of a cliché, in lack of better words. Sort of think if "The Strain" and "Alien" had a baby, then this movie would be it, except it didn't prove nowhere as interesting or entertaining as neither of them.
I wasn't familiar with a single actor or actress on the cast list, I will say that the acting performances were actually fair, despite the fact that the script and material they had to work with was mundane.
The CGI animated aliens in the movie looked rather questionable, and that somewhat took away from the overall enjoyment of the movie. Alien movies such as this needs proper effects to be effective, and having subpar CGI effects just really doesn't cut it for me.
While I did manage to endure through the entire 81 minutes that the movie ran for, I was not overly impressed or particularly entertained by director Rhys Frake-Waterfield's 2022 movie. And it is definitely not a movie that I will ever return to watch again. Nor is it a movie that I would recommend for diehard sci-fi fans to sit down and watch.
My rating of "The Area 51 Incident" lands on a three out of ten stars. Points awarded for the sheer effort they put into this project.
