Hmm, where to start without giving too much away. It's just really bland. Like MTV's The Hills (2006) but everyone's on Ritalin. It's character based in the sense that Cloverfield (2008) was except that these guys' acting is even worse (don't get me started on the script). You don't care about any of them and there's an annoying flash-forward at the beginning to fill in time. It's 92 minutes and even that's a stretch.
The appeal for the film is obviously the effects but they are too few and far between. Nothing happens really in the first 30 minutes where the characters are looking at the exterior of the apartment and going whoa! but as an audience you're not privy to this. In that sense, it's incredibly frustrating.
You can count the references throughout to The Matrix (1999), Alien (1979), The X-Files (1993), Close Encounters (1977), The Outer Limits (1963) and of course Cloverfield et al. but with nothing original to boot.
The Strause Bro's need to stick to Special Effects rather than directing and all actors involved (most notably Eric Balfour) need to stick to TV rather than film.
It's just dull dull dull.
Rotten Tomatoes were generous.
Ignore the audience, they're dumb.
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