To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

UNAWARE is another found footage style movie with a sci-fi rather than horror angle. Another reviewer was right on the money when he said that ALIEN ABDUCTION: THE MCPHERSON TAPE which was ten times the film this is; not a perfect film by any means, but one which had plenty of incident and creepy stuff going on throughout to recommend it.By comparison, UNAWARE is very dull and threadbare. At least half of the running time has nothing going on apart from the dull two protagonists wandering around and chatting. There's supposed to be mystery here, and a sense of pervading horror at something nasty in the garage, but it doesn't really work. It feels instead like the characters are just treading water and waiting for the good stuff, which never arrives anyway (the budget is so cheap that we just see a couple of things in the distance and that's it). Despite being beautifully shot - the camera-work is refreshingly non-shaky and the locations are great - the lack of incident and narrative makes this a very tedious watch.

Slowest start and a weak attempt at building anticipation. Talking for long long LONG scenes about the barn being off limits, for example. We got its importance the first time. And building it up and having them go in and just. talk. more. when they do finally get into the barn is not the way to capture an audience's attention.This movie seemed ad libbed in many of the scenes, and unfortunately, the actors just didn't have the skills to pull it off. It didn't help that they were given "Female Character" and "Male Character" as personalities, either.The first twenty minutes actually felt like watching a home video of a slightly boring couple. They talk about Roy and the barn a lot, but it is repetitive and annoying, rather than working us towards any kind of interest or dread. It also fell into the biggest trap of found footage movies. I'm sure it must be really hard to shoot a movie that looks professional while also appearing to be shot by amateurs. It must be hard, since so few movies can do it well (The Borderlands was good at this, as was the otherwise horrifying Skinwalkers Ranch). The shaky camera, losing focus, the weird tracking thing that I didn't think happened on digital cameras, setting the camera down at uncomfortable angles, the static, having half the movie shot in the dark are all unnecessary and detract from the movie. A few of these things could bring us into the premise of the movie. Having all of them makes the movie impossible to watch. It is worse than having it shot in a traditional way. (At 35 minutes, I have written this review up to this point, and nothing has happened in this movie. This review is now the only thing keeping me sane.) There are three or four conversations at this point that they've had multiple times. That is absolutely unnecessary, and I don't understand how anyone watched this edit and thought, yes, this is great, we should release this.They shouldn't have released it. "LOOKS LIKE ITS FROM THE WHITE HOUSE"Is this a primary school play. Could you beat us over the head with this plot any harder. I may not understand what's happening yet. 45 minutes of barn talk hasn't been enough to give me a back-story to this inane plot. Please. Explain more. Hopefully for the rest of the hour twenty."Let's not get ahead of ourselves"No. At 45 minutes, you are absolutely behind yourselves. You are licking your own butts. NOTHING HAS OCCURRED. "HIS ADVENTURES DRIVE ME NUTS"He's gone into a barn. Three times. His grandfather's barn. His grandfather's papers. Wow, son. Calm down before you hurt yourself. That is a wild life you're leading. Watching TV and sleeping and looking in a barn.This movie only makes sense if they are aliens.ooo I hope they are aliens.They see a dead thing in an old box and proceed to freak out. As if maybe that will convince me that this movie is worth watching. Maybe if the actors pretend this is a big deal, the audience will be convinced that something is actually happening! I, however, am not that easily fooled. I know there's nothing happening because I have spent the last 58 minutes watch nothing happen.I don't think they're aliens.He goes on about his grandfather being his only family, but doesn't wait four hours for him to get home to explain the barn before calling the FBI. "This is a very. serious. situation." No, its not. You found some old stuff in a barn. This is how they try to build anticipation. Now, we have to go and look in the barn before the cops get here! We don't want to get my grandfather in trouble! Who knows what else is in there! If you didn't want to implicate your grandfather, you could have, oh, not called the FBI?They have been arguing for the past ten minutes about going to the barn. She, the nagging wife before they even get married. He, to stalwart man trying to defend his grandfather from the FBI he called on him.I'm hoping this movie is a joke, because otherwise people watched this and thought it was good. and that. That is so sad.They've spent more of this movie talking about going to the barn than being in it, which is frankly ridiculous as they've gone into it five times. FIVE TIMES. "What is that? What the f* is that?"I have no idea, since you are shooting it in the dark with a blurry camera at 200 yards. However, having since seen it closer in the next ten minutes of the movie, I'm pretty sure its a guy in a rubber suit.I'm glad you both went missing. I only wish it had happened 120 minutes ago.TL;DR There is slow build and then there is this plodding excuse for a movie. Terrible cinematography, writing, pacing and acting just add to mind-numbing redundancy of this 120 minutes. Avoid.

Truly one of the worst films I've seen in my life . Zero plot, zero thrill. Guy proposes to a girl, yet the night of their engagement, he wants to go investigate an old barn rather than be intimate and possibly have the best of his life. Add to that, the cheesiest effects and worst directing I've ever seen. The story made no sense , yet every step of the way we're supposed to believe this nonsense. But allegedly, the US government keeps alien corpses in retirees barns. And top-secret government documents in filing cabinets in said barn. Plus the lead character isn't ignoramus, and treats his girl terribly. He is a giant manchild invading the privacy of his grandfather. I wish I could get the hour and 20 minutes back of my life that this film took. Fortunately I watched it for free on Netflix otherwise I'd be very ticked off. STOOPID MOVIE, I REPEAT, STUPIDMOVIE

I was attracted to this film as it seemed to have garnered s handful of awards and was hoping this was some undiscovered gem of a horror film it ain't The found footage sub-genre can produce some good films The Collinswood Story being a memorable one and the VHS anthology films but sadly this offers nothing really new sometimes found footage can offer good or inspired shot compositions - in this we have views of a house and a barn....zzzz the acting was clunky at best ...the female lead was annoying - the male lead had a certain charm though the plot was standard fare but became absurd once they discover whats in the barn - the fact that they discover it there is the most absurd thing now for the most important part....the scares and atmosphere....apart from the end 10 minutes or so, it was lacking save your time and give this film a miss as there are far better found footage films out there