Another over hyped piece of trash

Rating: 1/10 (17 January 2008)

Cloverfield tries to emualte The Blair Witch Project and fails spectacularly. If you're going to rip off a movie, rip off a good one! Everything about this movie stinks. The "gimmick" of being recorded on home video gets in the way of actually telling the story. Literally there are plot points that cannot get across because of the films style. When one of your main characters is heard but hardly seen, it makes sense for that character to not have an annoyingly whiny and dumb voice. In fact, all of the male actors in this movie are stupifyingly annoying. So much so, they all mold into one person. I couldn't tell who was who for most of this movie, making it hard to care about any of the characters plights. All the cool stuff happens off screen or out of focus or the camera is filming the ground at the time. It is the cinematic equivalent of turning up ten seconds after a hot chick has just put her top back on. This will be a contender for worst film of the year- a film that is too bogged down in it's own cleverness and gimmickry to make sense or engage the audience.