Less than 75 seconds of the so-called "Monster"

Rating: 1/10 (28 April 2008)

I was really looking forward to this...until I saw it. Here was a wonderful chance to indeed have our very own American Godzilla. Something Has Found Us! proclaimed the tag line. I really wanted to see a good "monster stomps the city flat" flick that we could call our own. But all we are left with is; 1. Idiotic POV camera with the most obnoxious person behind it. 2. A bunch of mindless young people going on a search for another mindless person trapped. 3. You could have substituted a Tsunami, earthquake, any natural disaster as the cause of concern in the city as over 82 minutes are wasted on these idiots walking, climbing stairs, running to get to said friend. 4. Said friend was pierced by rebar through and through the chest-but has the most remarkable powers of recuperation as she continues to improve to the point of being able to run, navigate across obstacles etc. And is never out of breath even tho the chest wall and lung has been torn. Not bad for a sucking chest wound with internal bleeding. 5. As an almost after thought - we get treated to less than 75 seconds of the monster... What would have made this monster movie better? Well to start with, make it a monster movie for one. Get rid of the idiotic 30 something's and if one must keep doing this POV camera, then is should have been news crews covering the event, and perhaps a military recon unit or forward air controller tapes found and reviewed. But for me this was a total waste of what had the chance of being a really good movie. No doubt the bandwagon will be in full swing for a sequel. One can only hope they get around to actually doing a monster movie on the next one.