A poor attempt to emulate older monster movies.

Rating: 1/10 (27 January 2008)

I am normally a big fan of the huge monster crushes city genre. That said, I have to be honest, this movie was the worst I have ever seen in that category. I would almost rather sit through ten screenings of Godzilla 1998 (Ferris Bueller Meets Mega-Iguana), than sit through one more screening of this. The plot centers on a group of semi-self-absorbed yuppies, and their totally futile attempt not to get crushed or have their heads explode. The characters seemed somewhat 2 dimensional and they usually died before the viewer has a chance to really get to know them. The fact that by the end of the movie, every single one of them has been killed in some really horrible way, does not do much for the ending. This kind of futility movie just annoys and you leave the theater wondering why you even bothered to see it. The effects would probably have been good; had the people responsible for such things not decided to get artsy-craftsy and use the very overused 1st person handy-cam technique. Most of the visuals were un-viewable because of the constant shaking and blurring of the camera. There was pretty much not coherent story line. The plot simply connected a loosely connected bunch of video clips. At least older B movies such as the big G and the Beast from 20000 fathoms had a real plot, actors you cared about, and much more depth. As for the creature... You never get to really get a good look at him until the last few minutes of the film; and then he looks pretty ridiculous. Also no explanation was given to the small creatures that seemed to just appear all over the place at the same time. If you want a good monster movie, don't waste your ticket money on this poor substitute, go and rent or buy a Godzilla flick or old Ray Harryhausen movie. At least those movies knew how to do Giant Monsters.