User blog comment:Dorkpool/Always Watching: A Review/@comment-24101790-20161102150749

Yeah, I watched it for my movie marathon and found it lackluster. Here's what I thought:

"Always Watching: A Marble Hornets Story" is the sub-title but the issue is that this really doesn’t connect to Marble Hornets (the Youtube series) at all. There’s a missing person’s poster for one of the characters from the Marble Hornets series and it tries to make a connection at the end that the survivors have the original college tape, but it feels like its own story. The camera always seems to be on; whether it’s recording the reporter’s last Percocet for 2013 at a party, talking over drinks after a successful report, or Milo expressing concern about the new co-worker. Sometimes the cameraman, Milo, isn’t even there and the camera’s running on the ground with no one holding it.

You can only see Slenderman (never directly called that) through the camera. The big issue is that the cuts are so random. It’ll go from Milo looking over footage and spotting Slenderman to a scene of him looking at the creature in his own backyard with little build-up or tension. It feels like they really just wanted the name and didn’t want to add a backstory so we have “Marble Hornets”-lite, condensed from 5-6 hours with little reason to care about the characters and the series is necessary viewing as nothing is really explained in this movie. Trivia facts: The movie was postponed from a 2014 release after the Slenderman stabbings.