A unique and interestingly different approach to the crashed alien space craft/alien contact genre. A take I've never seen before (and I've watched a LOT of these films) which makes it a must-see for any fan. However as it is, it would have been better as an hour long short. That really is it's main problem--not enough story to fill out a feature length film; otherwise it was a very worthwhile effort.The story was stretched too thin for a feature, but it has its strengths as well; the acting was very good and it did manage to maintain tension despite the relatively slow pace. While it did use a bit of the "found footage" technique, it didn't over do it and how they used it made sense. Plus for those who hate FF, there is only a little (a reasonable amount of) camera shake (I hate that too). The story overall held together, but I was puzzled by why the interrogation was instantly hostile. It would have helped if there had been some kind of indication given--more background shown regarding the person in charge and her over-board hostility, and the explanation would have helped fill out the story. A missed opportunity for real story telling, it comes off as the bones of an idea rather than a full-fleshed film.Still much better than many of the films of the genre and much better than the 3 rating on the IMDb page. I don't get it; there are far worse films with much higher ratings. Go figure. I was almost tempted to give it a higher rating than I did just to make up for it.

Ejecta (2014) Is a movie, Directed by Chad Archibald and Mat Wiele and it was written by Tony Burgess.It's a Canadian production. Spoiler Ahead. The movie's central focus is on William Cassidy played by Julian Richings, and his sadistic interrogator Dr Tobin, played by Lisa Houle. William had met an alien presence and the nasty Doctor wants to literally get into his head to learn what he would not disclose , Scenes are revisited as flashbacks, each return revealing a touch of new information to the plot. All in all I found the technique to become tiresome after a while, It seemed to be done to conceal a weak plot.Running in the dark with a night vision lens is a horror movie cliché that deserves to be shot. Amazing how much time was wasted on this repeated segment. Everything else in the movie was done to confuse the plot rather than clarify it. Having seen it once, i would still have a difficult time telling you what it really is about. If I may be honest, some of the dialogue went past me, Why the actors felt a need to whisper their lines when there was no reason in the story for them to do so, is beyond me. Did I miss anything important? If you mean did I miss anything that would make this story make sense, then yeah, I must have missed it.Six out of Ten "they tried" Stars. What do they want? go figure.

Having persevered with this horror movie and that is what it was, a horror right through to the end, I would have said suicide seemed a better alternative. I tremble at the thought of going through that sort of experience again. The plot was terrible, the scenery was infantile in that too much green, supposedly NV goggles? was used and it was repetitive. The editor should not have used the same scenes so often. It became boring. Disjointed is another word that springs to mind. Anyone on amphetamines would probably feel at home. One reviewer said the downside was that it was a low-cost movie. Well, I cannot agree. Nobody in his/her right mind would spend money on this waste of time so that is not really a consideration. My only positive suggestion is that it would have been better named by calling it EXCRETA not EJECTA.

Being a huge fan of Pontypool and the very bizarre and completely unexpected idea it brought to the concept of zombies, I went into Ejecta expecting the unexpected. Sadly, when the movie ended nothing of the sort had happened but I did get the feeling it tried. The scenario is a weird mix of threadbare tropes and some nonsensical elements with very little connections or consequences between them. The special effects are not as good as some TV shows.One of the first thing we see is this testimonial from William, the main character of the story, about how aliens somehow came in his head and left something there, something that fills his sleep wit dreadful stuff that is beyond description. The delivery of the interview scenes are as chilling as it gets, but you can only speak of indescribable horror for so long before it starts being just vague. The fake documentary angle works though, and the delicate balance between the interviewer being impressed, skeptical, and a bit scared is well played.Then the opening credits roll, showing every mythical alien photo we ever saw. It is fitting, because most everything about the alien's appearance, behaviour and obscure motivations does not stray an inch from the established alien lore.So the titular solar ejecta happens, which somehow makes an alien ship fail and crash on earth... in the woods behind William's house. There is an ellipse, Soldiers are there. William gets shot. William gets captured and interrogated in a bunker. And this is where the situation gets from tense to grotesque, as he is being questioned and tortured by a women that people call "doctor" who is also single-handedly ordering the soldiers, when she's not shooting them in the head to ascertain her authority. I actually enjoyed the way she played fake-friendly and enthusiasm that switches instantly into dark sadistic glee, but I found the amount of multi-tasking a bit unnatural.See, Dr. Tobin also found the footage of the incident (which has somehow been neatly edited with music in-camera) and is watching it for clues and learning about its content in real time, at the same time the audience is. The tape mostly contains very long chase sequences in the wood and the house. The alien's beastly behaviour and casual nakedness is never adequately explained, they just chase and bully the hero around, staying out of frame and out of light at all times, emitting a wide variety of growls, wails and that fashionable staccato growl every scary creature and movie trailer started making a few years ago.Meanwhile, in the torture bunker, mysterious gadgets are used and misused with inconclusive results, there is much shouting and unpleasantness. Some weird things do happen at the end, but never really build up to a reveal or help in any way to explain the goal of the alien's actions. In the end there is no mystery, there is just the unexplained.