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I don't know why my local library stocked this, according to IMDB, hardly anybody has seen it, and I can see why. I don't how to review this total mess of a movie, so I'll just give you a few things that happen, and it is a found footage movie. First of all, the stars Eric Roberts has less than two minutes in the movie, and Tom Sizemore, has less than 3 minutes at the most. Some invading giant parasite has appeared in the Atlantic Ocean, and sends out these little parasites, that either causes peoples head to explode, or the people become zombies. The whole movie is told to us, from a lady that has viewed the tapes, and some kind of book that explains it all, but we, the audience gets no clue what it says. that's enough, the movie makes zero sense, the acting is horrible, and I have no idea where the writers ever got the idea to make this piece of crap. I would really like to know, if anybody else was silly enough to watch this. As I said, it didn't cost me anything, but anybody that borrows it from the library, is going to ask WTF. anyway, 1/5 and that one is for some of the practical effects that were not that bad. Stay way way clear of this trash....

Stiff acting. Bad edit, shots, all. bad direction.. B movie that is not campy . bore fest. sorry to be so negative about it. worth 3 for effort.

the director must have some connections to have this made, maybe its a sort of demo? but it dosnt show good directing influences or inspiration.

Never ceases to amaze me that so much effort and money can be poured into a film for so little. I find it surprising also that Julia Roberts brother and Tom Sizemore are in this. Just goes to show they have no idea until the end of filming what the result will be, maybe they don't care. Best part of this film is the out takes at the end.

Well, if you can call it a film. It completely lacks a coherent narrative. It makes no sense. It's just disjointed writing and crude images.

Paraphrasing a line from the film of course, but it fits.

Example: My colleagues - what few are left - are gone.

Also, very hard to hear/understand some of the main actress' dialogue. I think her English actually improved during the course of the film, but I wish I had subtitles available.

Got to give some credit for Lovecraftian horror theme though.

No pun intended - sometimes I see ratings for movies and I think: it can't be that bad now can it? And then there are movies like this one, which remind me ... well I reckon it kind of can. No offense to anyone involved, I know making movies is not easy, even harder if you do not have any money/budget to speak of.

Tom Sizemore - if you have seen the movie Heat or some other stuff he did a long time ago ... you may remember really liking him! I mean I still do ... and he needs money, if no one else is hiring him ... he has to do stuff like this. A movie that makes almost no sense and is way too late for the found footage hype .... and if you are not a fan from the start anyway ... the movie will not win you over ... quite the opposite will be happening.

How hard up was Tom Sizemore and Eric Roberts for Money? Neither of them even bothered to try and act in this stinker, can't say I blame them. This move is a waste of time. I set through it to see how much worst it could get. In that I was not disappointed it did get worst. It has nothing redeeming the acting is terrible and so is everything else, writing, directing etc. It is super tough to try and write a review on such a stinger when you need to have six hundred characters. So sorry for the fluff her at the end. However. I reiterate that this is a stinker so pass unless you are really wanting to see a movie that should be rated a negative 10.

All I can think is "Oh Hai, Mark!" What starts out as a horribly, terribly acted movie soon turns into an embarassing mess of writing, acting, directing and unintentional butchering of the english language.

But stick with it and you'll see some of the worst cinema you'll see in ages. It's worth it for the laughs! The main, terrible, actress (Nana) talks into a (web?) camera throughout the movie as a narrator of sorts. The camera is mounted above her forehead and she has to look up at it with her twisted smile, terrible acting, awful pronunciation and a psycho look in her eyes. It all seems intentionally comical, but -- its not. It's super serious and it's super super bad.

The writing - oh wow - there are so many terrible quotes of cringe and nonsense, you'll feel like you're drunk trying to follow the dialogue. Just listen to it.. and it's really (unintentionally) funny-bad. Unlike tongue-in-cheek movies like the Sharknado series, this movie thinks its a seriously good flick, and it's hilarious to watch it try to pretend that it's an actual movie.

It tries to be a found footage film in a lot of the scenes, but it often raises the question : "Who is filming this? Where did the camera to film that come from??" Its so poorly thought out, its awesome-bad.

No it's not Tommy Wiseau bad, but it's pretty damn close. The main actress is worth it just to see how bad she is trying to be good.

It's still worth a 1/10 - but if you watch it just to enjoy its worst-in-class acting and its worst-in-class dialogue, you certainly will get some laughs and some groans. Just don't think it's serious.. and you might want to stream it so you can move the slider to give yourself a bit of break from having to watch the whole thing.

I just know that my brain now hurts and I don't think my eyes will ever forgive me.

I watched the trailer and that screamed unwatchable bilge ... How bad do films have to get before you don't call them films anymore, just pointless images on a screen that are on in the background as the dregs of society talk about their day in work and change the babies nappies ??? ... Well quite frankly the trailer was too much of a waste of life to even consider watching the film ... It is actually one of those times you actually look up the director and make sure you don't even bother watching a trailer if it involves the people who made this dross ... Hey look, I made a film ... No dear, you made a waste of equipment and wasted peoples time

Nana is married to Carlos Keyes, who wrote this movie for her. Period. But, she's beautiful!

Lack Wake proves that something genuinely weird and offbeat can be constructed out of what are otherwise fairly standard parts; you've never seen a movie quite like it, even if you've seen hundreds of movies that are sort of like it.

Shot as found footage (but no shaky camera) in a pseudo-documentary style story rather than having a plot unfold around a defined set of characters. The story twists and turns, evolving continuously. When you think you've discovered the main character and then they're eaten, beaten or exploded. The film is bold, brazen and makes every effort to push the envelope when it comes to non-traditional and non-linear story telling.

The plot is more of a downward spiral than a typical story with multiple characters taking center stage.

The umbrella term to describe this low-budget feature would be "found-footage horror," but beyond that, it's also a paranoid apocalyptic thriller, a zombie movie, a Lovecraftian "weird tale," a Roger Corman-esque exploitation flick, a Michael Crichton medical mystery - the list goes on and on, as if director took every disparate type of sci-fi/horror movie they ever thought was cool, threw them all in a Cuisinart, and hit "puree".

Ignore any even marginally good reviews you see for this garbage. It's not even a real movie. It's an amalgam of bad writing, bad directing and even worse acting.

Check Zito who is like 70 with ridiculously jet black hair mumbles thru his lines. How is HE getting work? Then there is this woman who can't even speak English constantly narrating. What the heck is that about? It's like she's speaking phonetically. Couldn't get an American?

Chuck Zito and Tom Sizemore have been in a few movies together of late and one hsa to wonder if these are funded by some kind of not so legal means. These are clearly not union films. There is no way they got permits to film under the boardwalk in NYC.

And Sizemore is back on the juice. Plus he delivers his lines like he just saw them in the script and doesnt know what the hell is going on.

Oh and then there's Eric Roberts who is also in a ton of movies like tis over the past few years. They suck. These films are garbage.

The director, according to IMDB is making a zillion films in one year. How is that possible? Well that's because these are not real movies. They are street junk that someone picked up and packaged.

Pass.

The lead actress was just awful. Her lack of the English language was dominate and her lack of acting ability was very visual. The director should at least try to go to film school. The editing was horrible and ridiculous. This movie was like some little kids got together and said "hey I got a camera, let's make a movie". I take that back, kids would have done a better job.

So sorry my wife and I tried to watch this movie. Nothing good about it at all

This movie is a complete utter waste of time. Do not waste your time I lost an hour and a half of my life. The acting is horrible the plot is horrible.

Take a script for a vanity project, front load it with a lot of recognizable talent and character actors, and then give it a star who cannot act her way out of a paper bag, and you get this hot mess.

Nana Gouvea, model turned actress, gives a performance that made me check to ensure that she wasn't Tommy Wiseau's sister. She isn't, but her acting is just as bad. There is a scene where it appears that Eric Roberts is literally covering his mouth to conceal his laughter at just how bad her delivery is. Of course, as the wife of Carlos Keyes, aka "CK Fernandez", who obviously wrote this film as a star vehicle for his talent-challenged wife. We certainly are not meant to forget that Gouvea was a model, with a number of meaningless swimsuit shots being inserted to capitalize on her looks, since her line delivery is so laughably bad.

The script has a number of issues. Shot in the fashion of found government footage, the entire film feels disjointed as it bounces back and forth with no real sense of where and when the story will go next. This was likely due to trying to rush the real talent of the film through a series of short takes in a day each, to minimize cost. Few of the movie's incredible supporting cast appear in more than two locations but, despite this, they turn in some fantastic performances - which one would expect from performers of their caliber, even if just doing it for the paycheck.

Even so, there is a better movie in here, SCREAMING to be let out. First, the movie looks really good. Serious thought was put into the cinematography, and the film is head and shoulders above most other C-Grade movies in that respect. It just looks... good.

The visual effects for the movie are also surprisingly good for an effort of this sort. While we aren't looking at ILM level of computer effects, what is included is relatively good, and the film works within its limitations.

Next, there is the supporting cast which, with only a few exceptions, turn in fantastic performances. Eric Roberts, Tom Sizemore, Jonny Beauchamp, and others give performances that are entertaining to watch and (at least in the context of this film) are believable. Of course, there are also issues with the cast.

Kelly Rae LeGault is embarrassingly bad as "the specimen." While some of this is, undoubtedly, due to the ambiguous and throw away nature of the character itself, she jerks about onscreen like a lizard on meth, her wide-eyed gazed more comedic than threatening or ominous.

J. W. Cortes and David Gere turn in wholly wooden and awful performances as a pair of Googleglass-wearing "agents" who do nothing to elevate the film. While one might be willing to overlook the poor performance on the part of Gere, Cortes' performance is glaringly bad. I suppose he gave the role as much effort as it deserved though.

Of course, the second worst performance (and by far the sleaziest) is turned in by Carlos Keyes/CK Fernandez. Appearing as a lab tech in a morgue, he cannot help but continue to blatantly steal glances at the bare breasts of the poor actresses playing the corpses/soon to be zombies. It isn't just distracting, it is out and out sleazy. I note that Keyes and Gouvea are no longer married - this scene certainly feels like a precursor to their divorce.

This movie could've been something, potentially quite good. Instead, it is a muddled mess with a leading lady whose dialogue delivery and overacting is just comical - but not in a fun way.

For the first official movie for his release, it was excellent. For what he had, he made it work better than I think most directors would. I loved that so much.

It is a completely different movie. I won't say much to bring no spoilers. But I can say that it is worthy watching it!

Good special effects and a great surprise ending made this "found-footage" indie worth watching.