(This review may contain spoilers).
When I saw this film advertised originally, I did think it was going to be a remake of E.T. I do think it draws a lot from that movie, having seen it today.
I liked the use of the technology in this book. I thought good use was made with the cameras, though I do think that videoing the events in a film is getting over-used, with all of the ‘found footage’ movies around now.
I liked the different personalities of the main characters and how they all played off each other. Although the theme of family wasn’t very strong through the film (the families of all four of them seemed very neglectful), I felt the friendship theme worked really well.
I also particularly liked Echo. He was cute and I really liked the way he communicated. It was also interesting how the camera angles changed so that the audience could see certain scenes from Echo’s perspective.
I did think that the bad guys weren’t really given any interesting motives. They just came across as token bad guys who were just villains for the sake of it. That’s never very interesting.
I did like the film and I know family members and friends who’ve seen the film and really liked it. I did enjoy watching it, but I don’t think I would see it again.
Ink of Blood 