Instant Favorite.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

I'll start by saying this: I've been on a small boat in choppy water for six hours straight without getting sick. I've been on roller coasters and rides that spin. I've seen modern action movies. I've seen extremely poorly shot found footage movies. Never once have I been sick from them.I almost threw up during this movie because of how awful the camera was. Even when people were just talking, the camera shook. During the action, the camera shook to the point where I couldn't entirely tell what I was supposed to be seeing, or even trying to look at.Even if I didn't almost get sick during the movie, I couldn't tell you what was happening because I couldn't stop screaming in my head for the cameraman to "STOP SHAKING THE DAMN CAMERA!"

EvidenceWhat's this Movie About?"Detectives try to solve the murder of a group of people using video footage from multiple recording devices."I really do feel like I wasted an hour and a half of my time.Planning on doing this a little different and not spoiling as much at first. Basic premise is two friends and a boyfriend go on a vacation to Vegas. Along the way, they meet up with a variety of different people and have one more stop before heading out. Too bad their bus gets tangled in barbed wire and they get stranded out in the middle of nowhere.The acting is hit or miss. Sometimes it good but other times it bad, really bad. I'll say that Rachel is very likable at first but when chaos ensues, she becomes a screaming typical horror movie girl. Most of the detective characters act idiotic and rash without thinking. An example is Detective Burquez who rushes to find the suspect without knowing all the facts and then later makes a claim that isn't true and she would know it wasn't if they did a couple more minutes of research. The video evidence guy is completely incompetent and has to allow Detective Reese to do his job for him by clearing up some issues on the footage. Also, the forensics tech who is supposed to examine the bodies but is too busy being fat and lazy...sorry I have little tolerance for incompetence.I have to tell you, this is a found footage movie so right off the bat, most people won't like it. I have been split on found footage movies. I thought Blair Witch was OK, Quarantine is OK, Paranormal Activities were OK, VHS was ... You get the picture. I have never really been against found footage while there have been lots of complaints about the format. This movie is the movie that pushed it overboard. There's just too much jumbled nonsense, extreme close ups and garbled voice acting that I don't think I can defend or appreciate this type of filming again. All of the above is evident in this movie but has an extra kick to it. We are watching a group of detectives watch video footage trying to decipher it because 'the footage was in a fire and was badly damaged'. What they mean is this basic amateurish camera work is shoddy at best and is hard for even detectives to search through. Found footage is not the way I will be enjoying movies going forward. The style just doesn't make sense. Oh, and we get a horrible version of night visions!Now, on to what I did like. The killer in this movie is super unique up until the end. Someone in a welders mask and who uses a blow torch to kill people is pretty cool. Does have a set back though seeing as how the range is very limited due to the hose.The women in this movie are super cute so at least there's something to look at when you can actually see what's going on.There's a scene later in the movie which I don't want to give too much away right now but it involves mutilation and you don't see much but the sound and seeing wriggling feet as chunks of flesh are being tossed to the side is very effective. Wasn't overblown and walked that line of good storytelling and showing just enough.Should you watch this?I wouldn't waste your time. There is only a couple moments of entertainment and enjoyment. I'd say just watch the mutilation scene which in my opinion was the best part but other than that pass.Spoilers and Plot QuestionsOK, so it was all a movie... Kind of. So Rachel calls herself a director and Leann is the actress. Should've seen this coming. They say they can't have the trip without Leanns boyfriend which was kind of weird and should have been a sign. They introduce us to the cast on the bus. Leann and Rachel set this all up and killed everyone so they could make a movie and become famous.So, how did they know who all would be there? How did they know that there would be only that many people and not a bus full of people, some of who could get out of the predicament by simply overpowering them?The detectives act like they didn't know there was a fourth woman on the bus but wouldn't they already know that since the bodies were there? There can only be so many sets of arms and legs even if the bodies were blown apart.Why would they put out the video of them doing that? I'm guessing the answer is to become famous but now the cops know who did it and if caught will go to jail.Detective Reese says that those weren't glitches and the footage wasn't messed up but instead they were edits. I'm not the smartest or know anything about video editing or surveillance recovery but if this wasn't messed up camera footage, would you be able to clear up and decipher frames of footage to see unclear images? Also, even though the video tech guy is an idiot, I would think he would be able to tell the difference between an edit and damaged footage.

It's a found footage slasher movie with an ending twist toward the most unlikely possibility, which, these days is actually expected. Thus the plot outsmarts itself. It's also a another "girl power" power trip film. Haven't we just about worn out that plot device? This film will cause viewers to literally become ill. In many scenes the camera spins around the police video analysis room so quickly most viewers will either have to look away or get sick. But that's not all! Strange camera effects kick the film off with several minutes of paused video not unlike a video game where the player can stop world time and all movement. I nearly stopped watching 'Evidence' about five minutes in; it's a shame I failed to do that. Character wise we've got an annoying British accented female with a camera (what found footage film doesn't have an annoying individual on a camera?), an annoying up-and-coming actress who from her first appearance is very obviously in love with herself, her whiny, annoying boyfriend, an annoying Russian dancer with thankfully just a few heavily accented lines, a grungy looking army wife who does little more than scowl (annoyingly), and a grumpy bus driver who ought to be able to kick some serial killer butt, but never does, of course. Oh yeah, there's an oriental teen who seemed like he could be comic relief but he dies right away. Yes, I did attempt to make the above paragraph as annoying as possible to read in order to convey the spirit of the effect 'Evidence' will have on you. What happens? Cops analyze found footage in hopes of solving a string of brutal murders in the Nevada desert. Most of the film involves the viewer watching this found footage from various victims' video recording devices which amounts to--when pieced together--a low budget slasher movie. This is yet another movie where a group of stranded (fill in the blank) take shelter in a run down structure middle of nowhere and rather than even consider fighting back, cower together after the first murder. The way these "characters" were written to behave suggests some kind of horrifying supernatural thing on the loose. Instead of something cool like that, we end the film with ... frankly ... the stupidest possible solution to the watered down mystery posed by its so called plot. Please, do yourself a favor and avoid this one. Otherwise, the only entertainment to be had (the camera spin will still make you sick), is to make fun of 'Evidence' by staging your own episode of Mystery Science Theater.

*Review Contains Slight Spoiler But Does Not Ruin The Movie*I constantly say im done with found footage films yet I always end up watching more, I dislike them about 80% of the time but for some reason I keep punishing myself. "Evidence" seemed promising when I started it. Solid start, decent acting for this type of film, and a some what interesting plot. But then we dive into the "found footage" portion of the film which is a complete mess. Its basically just a jumble of scenes focused around people trapped at a old gas station getting murdered. This wouldn't be so bad if the camera didn't shake so much during all the good parts, preventing us from even really knowing whats going on.The last 15 minutes is definitely the movies strong point, if the rest of the film would have been more like this I could have gotten on board a bit more. "Evidence" manages to pull off a 4/10 simply because of the finale.