Seen a trailer for this while watching another straight-to-DVD film some years back & thought the concept to be quiet interesting. I mean, I'm not a big fan of found footage, but this one grabbed me & I had to put it down on my watch list!The film is about a plane which crashes into a government testing facility due to turbulence experienced in the flight prior, to which we also learn that it is new years day! Of all days, this happens & the plane crashes in of all places on of all days! Typical, but hey! It works!Anyway, they crash, survive & happen to be in a government testing facility where these "creatures" lurk! Now through all the bitchin' & moaning you get in this film, the Blair Witch style of film comes in. Moaning, screaming, complain & bitchin' seems to dominate this film over 85% of the time. It gets on your nerves so much so that just want to get on with the film & get to the point.Although you see quick glimpses of the creature, or whatever it is, you don't see anything other than the group screaming & yelling 85% of the time, its annoying & then comes the end which wasn't too bad, but not much of a twist! It was actually disappointing! The effects of the dinosaur were terrible & simply unimaginative!Sadly , not great, despite its concept! 3/10

Why the hell do they insist on making crap like this? There is very little in this movie that makes any sense and I'm ashamed of myself for having watched it.To give a brief overview, it's new years eve, plane takes off from New York heading to L.A, (I think that's right), just after midnight the plane gets brought down by some turbulence and they end up crashing in the middle of what turns out to be a secret army testing ground.This is another awful and incredibly cheap attempt at making one of these irrepressible found footage movies, the only problem with this is that it's devoid of anything even remotely interesting.Firstly there are so many things factually wrong with the film I can't think of where to start. Aside from that, it makes no sense at all to continually try and film all the goings on and shine a bright light around, considering that people are being killed off one by one by some unseen monster. The last thing anyone would really do is bother to keep hold of a handy-cam, which in actual fact never manages to catch any of the action, when people are dying around you.There's a ton of footage of the ground, survivors covered in blood that always seems fresh and lots and lots of arguing. There are about 2 quick flashes of monster and a hell of a lot of darkness. So in a nutshell, this whole movie is pointless. There is nothing good about this and it appears that the only thing that was real were the head injuries, as not one of the survivors showed any kind of common sense. Only right at the end do you get a good, yet fleeting look at the creature and it's very much like a young Tyrannosaur.For all of the injuries that these survivors all suffered, no one ever felt faint, lost consciousness, threw up or had any logical reaction to anything happening around them. I feel sorry for anyone else who watches this as there's no greater unnecessary pain than willingly sitting through this abomination.

...in the inherent weakness of the "found footage" genre, "Area 407" further hobbles its cinematic foot by apparently ad-libbing all the dialog (bad idea with such a bare-bones story) and shooting the entire mess in five days (Ed Wood and Roger Corman would, I suppose, be very proud). The results are, to be kind, slipshod. Whiny teenager and older sister flying home to L.A., plane crashes (morphing into an obviously different aircraft, but never mind that), then something begins attacking the survivors (and it's pretty obvious, pretty early, that it's some sort of raptor). Eventually everyone dies, the end. Way too much repetitive screaming, whining, walking, and damn little in the way of interesting characters, dialog (improv is NOT film-friendly), or camera-work. Found-footage films occasionally work; "Area 407" isn't one of them. Back to the drawing board, kids. Avoid unless you have ninety minutes to kill and are fresh out of drying paint. This baby might have been amusing as a half-hour "Tales from the Darkside," but otherwise has absolutely nothing to offer.

And no, not like the Three Stooges joke - Girl: "You'll like me after we get acquainted. I grow on people." Curly: "So do warts!" The announcement at the beginning that this was a found footage video made me consider turning it off, but I'm glad I watched the whole thing. Unlike some of the others who liked it, I thought that the flight portion was the slowest part. It was after the crash that the actors really started to shine.The first clue that this wasn't the standard disaster movie was the missing Annoying Hysterical Girl Who Keeps Asking Everyone To Explain What's Happening. She's usually the first to die, and with good reason. There was no Evil Angry Guy Who Steals And Hoards Resources, and no Annoying Blonde Bombshell Afraid To Break A Fingernail.Melanie Lyons did a great job as Laura the Air Marshal (and she is Australian, so there was no discrepancy with her accent). But really, all the actors worked hard in their roles, and the overall effect was impressive. Even if the camera wobbled a lot (and so did the plot), in the end it seemed more realistic than a movie that was too heavily scripted. In the end it was reminiscent of one of the original Twilight Zone episodes in black and white, where there were no special effects and maybe not even that much set dressing, just good solid acting and a wicked twist at the end.Was it my imagination, or did I see Green Beanie Guy pull kind of a pervert move while the passengers were boarding the plane?