Over-Hyped and Under-Appreciated

Rating: 2/10 (18 December 2009)

For me, Cloverfield is a good movie, but it's just not scary to me. It was best by fast-forwarding through the monster scenes and watching the character sequences. The special effects are really well done, but a real creature at the size depicted would have collapsed under its weight. The movie itself has a very "Blair Witch Project" feel where you follow the characters, but you're not allowed to learn anything or are you allowed to learn anything. The brief scenes of the creature (or creatures?) is something like a bald ape, frog, grasshopper and tick; it's never seen in full form and that's what makes it really annoying. There's a lot of overdone devastation, but not enough plot. I'm just not terribly impressed by it.