Take some Airborne and deal with it.

Rating: 9/10 (21 January 2008)

This movie was done JUST FINE for the style they worked with.
What saddens me is nobody has a good excuse for why this was a bad movie, I see these things, mainly.
1. Style vs. Plot Explanation Take this into account if you don't get anything else from this review. It's done in first person style, so we only know as much as the kids know, whatever it is they are doing. It happens in a matter of a few hours, and I dunno about you, but all monster movies take a day or so after the initial attack to learn how it all started. Also, if you remember correctly, they had a discussion in the subway tunnels where hub suggested it could have been hibernating in the ocean for thousands of years without our knowledge. The truth of this we won't know.
2. Style vs. Reality Get a friggin grip. They couldn't win here. If they did the movie EXACTLY like a cheap digicam would be, EVERYONE would complain of the horrid video quality, the terrible sound, and the constant shaking (which i will get to shortly). Of COURSE they used an amazing camera to make this film. Of COURSE they stopped shaking the camera to see something cool. Who would go see a movie in Stereo? Who would go see a movie that's heavily pixelated? Who would go see a movie with almost indistinguishable text? NOBODY.
3. Motion Sickness You guys are the biggest sissies ever. What, do you have to vomit when you ride a bike, too?
The camera shaking wasn't nearly as bad as one of the fight scenes in Bourne Supremacy, and honestly, the theatre I went to was packed and no one complained about motion sickness, the theatre my friend went to was packed and no one complained, and none of my friends or their friends got sick either.
Take some Airborne or something next time and suck it up you pansies.
As for the film and my opinion of it.
The film was great with what they worked with. Granted the first 10 or 15 minutes were boring and served no purpose other than to show that the main character loved a girl and couldn't exactly tell her.
Once the "earthquake" (which I might add made me laugh, considering that no earthquake makes an enormous booming sound like that) hits, we're thrust into panic, AS WE SHOULD BE. The kids all run outside to see what's going on, then things blow up and debris goes flying and it's lots of mayhem. We learn that this guy is starting to get scared for the girl he loves and needs to get a hold of her, though the need to isn't so great until the Brooklyn Bridge deal, then he freaks out because he doesn't want her dieing without being certain she know he loves her.
THIS, FOR ALL YOU THICK HEADED MOVIE NOOBS, IS THE PLOT.
Simple as it may be, that's what it is. He is in a panic, his adrenaline is rushing, he is not thinking clearly; as no human being would be doing in that situation. They have their little adventure through New York, getting attacked and still remaining in the dark about what's attacking them. They go to get the girl against all odds, and it is when they pull her off the bar (WHICH DID NOT PIERCE HER HEART NO DUH) that the character has a clear sense of thought. They immediately go for safety.
The end of the movie happens, and it's very simple. Everyone is screwed, period. End of story, have fun with it.
I liked it, they dealt with it well, and even though the plot was simple, all monster movies have a simple plot. This was a monster movie, a complex plot would've ruined it.
Good work guys, next time you should actually enjoy the movie instead of grabbing your clipboards and analyzing every instant of it to see how perfect it is.