Disorientating, annoying, clumsy and very non-scary

Rating: 3/10 (6 February 2008)

Disorientating, annoying, clumsy and very non-scary.
I realise that it's all 1st person view, through the lens of a handy-cam, but FFS, a 5 year old could hold a camera steadier. They tried too hard to constantly remind us that it's through a cam-corder what we're seeing, D'uh! We knew that before bothering to watch it. How many of you have filmed parties or nights out or kids playing etc ...? and in the midst of chaos and commotion didn't you manage to keep the camera steady enough so that anyone who'd bother to watch what you filmed didn't want to vomit from your dizzy camera work!?
Very disappointing IMO, after all that hype. I knew it was going to be a bit of a mesh between Blair witch and Godzilla, I just didn't think it would be SUCH a mix of both, and not in a good way either. I also knew that I'd hate every character in it and I'd be wishing them all to die horribly, just from the teasers released late last year. I hoped there'd be at least one likable character, and that the whole handy-cam thing would at least be realistic, as in, anyone can point and film with one without it turning upside down, sideways and going out of focus every 5mins.
They could have done so much better with this idea