Supposedly this is the best of several recently released movies about the 'Phoenix Lights' incident, which makes me morbidly curious how bad the others could be. This is a paint-by-numbers found footage film that makes similar entries seem exciting, fresh and new. The directors decided the most exciting parts of the Blair Witch project were the long extended interviews with random people, and double down on this sequence, providing both 1990's and present day versions of the same fauxcumentary tedium. The vast majority of this movie is spent on getting to know stock characters through boring interviews who will spend the last 20 minutes of the movie running through dark and unintelligible scenes before brief bursts of bright lights and blurred running. The 'found' footage is made to look like 90's VHS, so it has a built in excuse to look uniformly like crap. This is an unoriginal and poor retread of better films, taking too long establishing a mystery that is not mysterious about characters who are barely sketches in order to provide 30 seconds of blurred motion pretending to be action .
Phoenix Forgotten