I want my 91 minutes back

The best part is that it has a 51% rating on here!

The first two-thirds of "Area 51" are nothing short of boring. Once a group of friends enter the military facility in the final third, they start finding things that are incredible but never explored to any degree. Which is a real shame because the things they find are pretty crazy. Instead, the characters simply run around trying to get out of every predicament that their curiosity got them into. It would be great to know more about these particular aliens because they're strange (and violent) and there are some pretty creepy things hinted at. I got a very weird vibe from a cave full of children's toys, for example. This is another found footage flick that is loaded with jump scares, but they're not particularly effective. You won't find any sustained frights worth mentioning, either. And one of the main problems with found footage movies is here again...they aren't fun to look at. Ugly cinematography as far as the eye can see. This ended exactly as I knew it would and the movie makes the mistake of assuming we care about the fate of the main characters and not about the aliens.

I wish Reid talked more about his obsession. His little 30 second overview for Ben wasn’t all that exciting or convincing.

It's tense, most of the characters are motivated and it ends about as well as you can expect a movie like this to. It leaves a lot of questions unanswered, but in the world of found-footage horror, you can't expect much better.