An Unforgettable Roller-coaster Ride

Rating: 10/10 (19 January 2008)

Okay first of all, THIS MOVIE IS AWESOME. I have to say that this will without a doubt be the best movie this year. Everything about this was good! The suspense was awesome, the monster itself you see a lot of and while it's on the screen you are scared silly! Even it's tiny little monsters freaky as hell, we'll get more into this later in the review.
So now to break this up into parts, the sets were awesome and reminisces you into the events of 9/11 as Godzilla did with Hiroshima. The destruction props and all these other things that happen are just amazing! At times you have to rethink to yourself: "Is this real?" The movie looks as if it would actually happen and is like putting yourself in the moment.
The Actors are great, it has very high emotions of sadness, fear, even a little joy. The characters are lovable from the moment you see and hear them, that's what makes the movie so great! These are characters you feel that you know, they could be you, they could be your friends, they could be that guy or girl down the street from your house, but you really know these characters, how they feel and how they react, it really is amazing.
The suspense in this film is some of the best I've ever seen. A particular subway scene will come to mind. It made a lot of people in my theatre scream and cover their faces, it was that intense! Every moment you see the monster you will get tensed up, you'll be like "HURRY UP RUN!!!" The real suspense is that you really don't have a clue of what will happen to our characters, will they live? Will they die? And once it happens it's like BAM! and you are shocked.
Okies so now the Monster. A few months ago I came across a fan sketch of the monster and I got excited, it looked scary and "Monstrous" and I was very excited to see the movie. Then a couple of weeks ago I found another sketch on my horror movie news site Bloody Disgusting and found out that sketch was real. I was disappointed to be honest, that new monster didn't look too menacing and boy was I wrong. The monster is SCARY and the mere sight of it on the screen is enough to send chills up your spine. The "Mini-Me" Monster parasites are well done as well. They resemble crabs and the monster is in fact supposed to be like a whale, and s you may or may not know, Whales carries tiny parasites on their backs that drop off them at times into the ocean. The monster here is no different and these little things are fast and scary.
Now to the main point of the movie...the camera. The entire movie is shot through the lens of a video camera. It's very Blair Witch Project-esquire and warning to the weary, it may cause motion sickness. It didn't bother me much, but whatever, you guys may want to take some pills or something, but that shouldn't stop you from seeing this amazing movie. Now I've heard this from places, but I think they are right, if I had to compare to how BIG this movie is, it's gotta be Jurassic Park. It's the Jurassic Park of the new generation, something we'll still be talking about 15-20 years later, it's a classic. The camera gives that emotional feel the movie needs and it delivers! This concludes my Cloverfield review,SEE THIS MOVIE IN THEATRES!!!! YOU WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED! It's an unforgettable roller-coaster ride you'll want to ride millions of times and never get tired of it.
10/10