Amber Alert - A setup for disappointment.

As you may already know, I'm a huge fan of found footage films. I normally only review movies that I like or recommend, however this one was so disappointing that I had to share. When I first heard about this movie, I was really excited to see it, it has a great premise, it was just executed terribly.

So we have a couple, Michael and Samantha who are filming a day in their lives for a reality show audition. Their friend Nathan is filming this for them. While out on the road they see an Amber alert posted and shortly after notice the exact car from the alert in front of them. They decide to follow the car while calling the cops. At one point they follow the car to a gas station where the driver gets out to go into the store. While the driver is away, Samantha goes up to the car and sees a little girl sleeping in the back seat, she knows she doesn't have much time, so she places her microphone into the car through a crack in the window.  When the driver returns and drives away, they continue to follow him until at one point he pulls over and confronts them.

He tells them that he knows they are following him because of the amber alert and that it's nothing to take seriously. He is going through a divorce with a nasty custody battle and his ex-wife called in the alert to get him back. They believe him and drive off. Shortly after they hear the microphone over their radio. They hear the man telling the little girl she isn't going home and to lay down and shut up. Michael and Samantha quickly turn around to find the car, in the process of doing this, they get pulled over, they tell the cop what is going on and he calls it in on the radio. They still proceed to find the man again.

They manage to figure out where the man lives and proceed into his house to rescue the girl. I won't give away anymore on this, but this sounds like a great movie, right? Well, it could have been, except for the fact that despite a few good key points, this movie is basically 90 minutes of Samantha and Michael arguing. Arguing to the point where it gets just about unbearable to watch. At the risk of being a copycat, I would love to see a film maker take this basic premise and execute it properly. In the right hands this could be an epic movie....