Last 35 minutes made it worthwhile

Rating: 6/10 (4 June 2016)

Cloverfield (2008) is one of the better found footage horrors, and this is a sequel (of sorts) to that as your probably know.
This is not filmed in the found footage format and also in the first hour you might think to yourself (is this really a sequel to Cloverfield?) because frankly the similarities up to that point are pretty non-existent.
And it's not until a bit later that it starts to resemble a horror even, and plays more as a psychological drama-thriller initially which is a bit peculiar, if this was the first movie or a standalone movie this would have worked great but as a sequel having us wait for that long? I don't know.
Well actually I do know now, after doing a little research.
The script was never meant as a sequel to Cloverfield, JJ Abrams had read it and liked it a lot so he bought the rights for it and simply decided to have it changed so it would fit into the 'Cloverfield universe'... Which is one way to do it I suppose.
Anyways the last 35 minutes are very good and make up for the wait, but as a whole which one should always judge a movie by is far from fantastic... Still a decent watch if you have the patience for it.