When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

I didn't hate this film, but it disappointed me in scene after scene. The characters are pretty dull, the story is weak and progresses too slowly, the scares are too few and too cheap (largely jump scares and false flags), and the ending is stupid. People in found footage films tend to do silly things, and this can have an alienating effect on the audience. This film is a really good example of that trend. In the climax of the film, the characters end up doing unbelievably dumb things, which, of course, gets them killed. Also, in the true found footage manner, nothing is ever explained. It's very convenient for the screen writer, is it not, to be able to throw all kinds of silly and confusing things at the audience, and never have to explain them, because in the final scene the characters all end up dead, and there is no one left to explain anything. Ultimately the thrill of found footage is the ride itself, and this ride picks up pace only at the end, which is a huge detriment. Had the plot been intelligent and cleverly developed, this wouldn't have been the problem. Unfortunately, this was not the case.

First of all I will state that I really, really… REALLY don't like "found- footage" movies and I don't deliberately seek out any of them to watch. That doesn't mean, however, that I'm automatically against every found-footage movie ever made, and I will always try to remain objective in my opinions if I do come across one. So, when I was on a business trip last week, I stayed in a hotel where "The Borderlands" was playing on the complementary free channel and watched it as much open-minded as possible. Well, I didn't like it… but at least it contains several strong and memorable aspects in comparison to other - and often far more successful - found-footage flicks, for example an intriguing background story and setting (the Catholic Church and a remote little parish in godforsaken England), identifiable characters (a cynical loner and a talkative Curious George) and cinematography that is not exaggeratedly annoying or headache-inducing. The latter is due to the fact that the protagonists – researchers working for the Vatican – are constantly obliged to wear headsets with integrated cameras, so the editing is a lot less hectic than in other found-footage movies and it occasionally even makes "The Borderlands" come across like a first-person-shooter video game. But then, unfortunately, the film still obviously remains a found footage horror movie and thus also features all the trademark flaws. It's basically a film in which absolutely nothing happens for about 95% of the running time, except for a whole lot of irrelevant gibberish and random padding footage. Then, there occur a few unclear horrific events in the blink of an eye – that remain unexplained of course – and then the film is done. Bam, just like that… "The Borderlands" distinguishes itself from the majority of found-footage movies because it nevertheless manages to gradually build up tension and because it features a couple of grisly "biblical" horror subjects, like stigmata etc., but you still need a lot of patience and tolerance to remain focused.

A pair of misfits investigates spooky goings on at an ancient church.Weirdly bad, with an incompetent intro sequence. The story is simple MR James stuff, but the setting just doesn't fit - a Vatican investigation of a church of England building with a congregation of zero? It reminds me of another embarrassing recent Brit horror set in ancient vaults, but I can't recall the title. To be honest, I don't want to.At one point I swear they called the parish priest Father Crillie - surely this was going somewhere funny? But no, the drama was deadly earnest and deadly dull, with weak attempts to inject character. And not a single female face. Failure of imagination. Sad to see the lead actor in this kind of production at his age.Cinematography was poor - no attempt at framing, everything in the middle of screen - but I liked the sound.

I found it pretty hard to rate this movie. It starts off as a pretty standard haunting horror type movie, although perhaps a little too slow for my liking. Once you get past the awful acting of Robin Hill (sorry bud) as Gray, the rest of them are not bad at all. But, without wanting to spoil it, I actually quite liked the ending. It definitely wasn't the ending I was expecting. And the endings are usually what suck the most about horror movies. I'd actually be quite interested to see if Elliot Goldner directs any other horror movies in the hope that he improves the starter and main course of his movie but with the continued spot on desert!