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Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Good concept, poorly executed.

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

A movie with potential, and promise, but somehow fails to meet the ends. You could sum up the movie, by saying it performed best, with the quality it was given. In personal bias, I'll state the movie itself could expand, further with the ideas it had. Giving it, an average rating. Everything centered around that statistic, average acting, plot, but the concept of the enemy was what was interesting.The holes in the plot are minor, but they still should have had depth. How did this happen? What about this? It didn't give a deep intrigue towards this, but gave the amount necessary to at least grasp it, albeit somewhat. These are all personal thoughts, but i enjoyed the movie. A settling horror flick, around your friends, or alone, but not worth more than maybe 10 bucks.

Altered is a sci-fi revenge film done by the same team that made The Blair Witch Project. Like Blair Witch this film is not for everyone. Some will like the film while others will hate the film. I am one of those people who liked this film for the most part. The movie has a very depressing atmosphere, but I think it fit the story. I liked most of the characters and felt their plight, though there are two that I did not care for. The effects I think are very well done for the low budget that this had.Fifteen years ago a group of men were abducted by aliens and altered. One of them died from the alterations. Now the aliens are back again and these men are out for revenge. The film starts out with them capturing an alien and bringing it back to the lead guy named Wyatt. They cannot kill it because more come then. The alien escapes and it is then a fight to stay alive.Like the Blair Witch Project, this film gets a lot of hate. Many people do not even know about this film. I think this film is pretty decent though nothing great. I like most of the characters and definitely had sympathy for them. Even if you do not like the characters in the movie you can at least sympathize with them. Even the characters I did not like I felt sympathy for. I especially like the main character, Wyatt, because he is the most calm and collected in such a dire situation and is a good leader. I also like the characters Duke and Otis. They were also level-headed most of the time and can also be funny. I also liked the sheriff character that appeared near the middle of the film. He was not there long, but was in the film long enough for me to like him.I did not like the girlfriend of Wyatt. In the beginning I thought she was really annoying. I get what she is going through, but I still thought she was annoying at first. She gets better by the end but I still do not really care for her character. I do not like the character Cody either. Again I sympathize for what he is going through. His brother was killed by the aliens, he was imprisoned for a long time before the start of the film, and by the end of the film he dies in a horrific way. However, I still found him to be an annoying prick throughout the first half of the movie and he did a lot of stupid things. The other at least could still be level headed during the situation.I thought the effects for this film were great. The budget for this film was only eight million, but they used it effectively. There is no CGI. The effects are all practical. The alien looks great. It looks kind of like the alien from Signs but even better looking. Also in the film there is a character that is bitten by the alien and his body gradually deteriorates throughout the movie. When you see him with his body deteriorated and fragile, it looks great. That effect looked amazing.Another issue I have is the ending. It seemed a little out-of-place when compared with the rest of the film. It is kind of left up in the air, but I felt that the film ended too happily, but maybe that is just me. I am not usually a fan of downer endings, but the tone of this film makes a happy ending seem out-of-place.Overall, Altered is a fun alien film, horror film, and action film. It has decent characters (for the most part), great effects, and some good action in parts. If you are a fan of any of those genres of films then check this out. It is not a masterpiece but it is not supposed to be.

Four men are determined to get revenge on the vicious alien life form that held them all hostage and killed their friend. However, the quartet all find themselves in considerable jeopardy after their plan doesn't work out the way that they expected it to. Director Eduardo Sanchez, working from a tight and gripping script by Jamie Nash, relates the involving story at a snappy pace, ably crafts a tense and spooky atmosphere, maintains a dark, grim, and serious tone throughout, builds plenty of nerve-rattling suspense, and delivers a handy helping of shockingly gross'n'gruesome gore (one guy gets a hideous flesh-eating infection after he's bitten by the alien). Moreover, the evil extraterrestrial is convincingly brought to terrifying life by a guy in a funky rubber suit and proves to be a truly formidable piece of nasty work. The excellent acting by the capable no-name cast keeps the movie humming: Adam Kaufman as the troubled Wyatt, Catherine Mangan as Wyatt's feisty girlfriend Hope, Brad William Henke as the sensible Duke, Michael C. Williams as bumbling wimp Otis, and Paul McCarthy-Boyington as the reckless and belligerent Codi. Veteran character actor James Gammon likewise registers well as the crusty Sheriff Henderson. The loyalty displayed amongst the main characters gives this picture additional touching depth and resonance. The succinct 88 minute running time ensures that this film never becomes tedious or overstays its welcome. Steve Yedlin's sharp cinematography makes stunningly effective use of shadowy lighting. The shuddery score by Tony Cora and Exiquio Talavera does the skin-crawling trick. A worthy shocker.

The aliens in this sci-fi horror flick do it all: control your mind and make you attack your friends, deliver flesh-eating viruses, plant bony, Cronenberg-esque tracking devices in your intestines, and just flat-out, violently attack you. From a distance, they look like men in green rubber suits, but up close they are intricate, disgusting, scary, and best of all, not CG.This movie has enough to please all types of horror fans. Although most of the fear it delivers is in the form of tension -- both from the aliens and from human anger -- it does contain some truly graphic scenes. The rotting flesh and intestine dismantling will please any splatter fan. The only thing that prevented this movie from being great is that I never found much reason to care about any of the characters.