I'm a big fan of found-footage horror films, and though I do still find many of them disappointing, this is the first one I outright thought "this should not even be a found-footage movie".
The lengths the characters went to get evens on camera just got ridiculous, and while every found-footage film eventually has those "why are they still filming?!!" scenes, this movie took that to an entirely new extreme.
For example, a scene where they character is in a hurry to bike to a place with cell phone reception, they first spend an hour rigging his bike to have a GoPro filming behind him because...why not (so the audience can see him being chased of course). And while he was being chased, a big foot was running along side him, which we would get glimpses of when he "looked" over, but the footage was clearly not from the GoPro on his head.
Another scene had a character dying, and she was looking up at her friend, the look in her eyes clearly pleading for help, and he just sat there and zoomed the camera in on her. Way too many scenes in this movie of a character standing around filming instead of helping. One scene has him aiming a shot gun and STILL holding a camera with his hands.
Lastly, despite being a found-footage film, it was overly edited like a regular film. It was just not at all clear why this needed to be a found-footage film (there are other found-footage Bigfoot movies that do it much better). That being said, the story and actors in general were okay. If this had been a regular steady cam movie, I likely would have rated it around a 6.
The lengths the characters went to get evens on camera just got ridiculous, and while every found-footage film eventually has those "why are they still filming?!!" scenes, this movie took that to an entirely new extreme.
For example, a scene where they character is in a hurry to bike to a place with cell phone reception, they first spend an hour rigging his bike to have a GoPro filming behind him because...why not (so the audience can see him being chased of course). And while he was being chased, a big foot was running along side him, which we would get glimpses of when he "looked" over, but the footage was clearly not from the GoPro on his head.
Another scene had a character dying, and she was looking up at her friend, the look in her eyes clearly pleading for help, and he just sat there and zoomed the camera in on her. Way too many scenes in this movie of a character standing around filming instead of helping. One scene has him aiming a shot gun and STILL holding a camera with his hands.
Lastly, despite being a found-footage film, it was overly edited like a regular film. It was just not at all clear why this needed to be a found-footage film (there are other found-footage Bigfoot movies that do it much better). That being said, the story and actors in general were okay. If this had been a regular steady cam movie, I likely would have rated it around a 6.