A false documentary

Rating: 7/10 (1 January 2009)

CLOVERFIELD is a movie that - like THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT did some years ago  is based on a false documentary. I mean there's an amateur film, shot in the first person, about something else and then something strange, which was definitely not supposed to happen, occurs, creating the point of interest of this false documentary. That's what happened with THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT and that's what happens with CLOVERFIELD. However there're too many differences between these two movies, and almost all of them, in a good point, in favour of CLOVERFIELD. I can tell two of them: First, CLOVERFIELD never tries to induce the viewer that what was been taped was real, was actually truth, unlike BLAIR WITCH which tried to do so with terrible consequences... Second, the plot is very different and definitely CLOVERFIELD has a lot more of action, interest and suspense. Yet the ending is very similar and, again, too many people claimed a typical "Oh, that's it? Has it already ended?!" But in my opinion I think it's a very good ending, the most logical one, and it could have happened even earlier I must say! About CLOVERFIELD I have to tell I enjoyed the experience of seeing a false documentary shot in the first person, more than I did with the BLAIR WITCH. Because of the above, but also because it was well done.