3/10
Just Checking the Boxes
24 December 2020
Warning: Spoilers
Let's see. What do we have here? Found footage horror film? Check.

Group of friends who can barely stand one another, who play stupid, mean-spirited pranks on one another and bicker incessantly? Check.

Said group heads off into unfamiliar territory to investigate mysterious events, bringing virtually nothing that they would actually need on the journey, except for a camera and a laptop computer? Check.

On the way to investigate, said group happens upon an ominous portent in the form of a crashed and damaged vehicle along the way? Check.

Said group finds evidence of an event that that are in no way equipped to deal with? Check.

Said group agrees that they aren't equipped to handle the situation, but argues whether they should stay or go? Check.

Going completely against common sense and all rationality, the group decides to stay? Check.

During the night, member of said group wanders off in the dark alone, without alerting any of the others, to investigate strange noises? Check.

Aforementioned idiot is killed for his troubles? Check.

Group becomes irritated because idiot wandered off alone, and aren't especially worried about it? Check.

Group finally decides to go and look for missing idiot? Check.

Group finds missing idiot, dead, mangled by mysterious creature? Check.

Compass and cell phones suddenly become inoperative and useless? Check.

One by one, said group of friends are picked off by mysterious alien creature? Check.

Other than different actors in a different location, there is virtually nothing in this movie that hasn't been done a thousand times before. This is essentially "The Gracefield Incident" set in Germany.
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