If you're going to make a "1st person reality movie" then

Rating: 6/10 (18 January 2008)

everything HAS to be realistic. If you have to "suspend dis-belief", then you HAVE to use conventional 3rd person camera techniques.
I give it a 6. The camera work was simply annoying. And even if you try and say "well, it's realistic" well, it's not. No camcorder battery lasts that long. And the entire time (basically) the guy holds the camera at shoulder level like he's looking through the viewfinder. Even when **SPOILER** the monsters are attacking him, he's pointing it in the direction of the action. I understand that it's necessary so the audience can see it, but if the director wants us to see it, then abandon that concept about the movie and do it 3rd person like every other movie.
No one reacted like a real person would have. NO ONE WOULD HAVE GONE BACK INTO THE CITY! If someone would have, then hundreds would have. That was one of my gripes... where are all the other 20 million people? No one else has relatives? No one else hides out in the subway? No one else is hurt in a building? No on e else left their apartments? Give me a break.
The special effects were very realistic. 9/10. The acting was sub-par. The main character, looking for Beth (Rob, I guess?) was totally non-believable. The smart-ass remarks by the guy running the cam were equally un-believable. Beth is impaled by a piece of steel, then is fine for the remainder of the movie.
There were just so many things un-realistic, and that's fine for most movies. I can suspend dis-belief as well as the next guy. But for this specific technique of realism in camera work, etc. then it damn well better be 100% realistic. Otherwise, use conventional story telling techniques.
I was very disappointed. Mildy exciting, horrible cinematography (which I would have accepted if 100% realistic in character actions), monster was just OK. Little monsters were copies of "Starship Troopers". I had no problem with the ambiguous ending as it was set up in the first sequence, that this tape was found "after the fact".