original disaster movie

Rating: 7/10 (11 February 2008)

The experiment is not about an epic disaster but regards a kind of style injecting a strong sense of terror into the whole story. It's not a life changing film but it focuses soberly on the reaction and humanism of a small group of people, on the way they react under such circumstances. The overall effect, probably helped by the moving camera, is terrifying, "Cloverfield" is really intense and gripping, scarier than other apocalyptic movies I had seen so far. It was defined a "Blair Witch's Project" bigger budget flick but this one is influenced a lot by 9/11 and You Tube. Actors are quite unknown but they did a good job.