Not worthy a sequel to Cloverfiield, bad marketing and broken expectations

Rating: 4/10 (8 May 2016)

I was one of those people who liked the first film (Cloverfield), and was expecting this one to be a sequel.
It is not.
The story, tone and pacing are different. This is a very different film. If Cloverfield was a first-person action packed sci-fi, this one is more of a slow paced psychological thriller. And not a good one.
I was upset they used the same marketing to push the fans of the first film, into a totally different (and inferior) experience. Not cool.
As a film on its own, it has important flaws which just turn it into a mediocre flick. It feels flat, uneventful... nothing really happening throughout most of the movie.
The only real suspense I ever had, was the expectation of the thrills of the first film. But they weren't there.