Not Just Another Monster Movie!

Rating: 1/10 (3 February 2008)

OMG, what can i say about this film that doesn't involve a runaway train of obscenities and tales of regret for handing over my 10 quid for 2 tickets. An intelligent person who requires an onslaught of stimulation to keep his/her attention will NOT like this film one bit, however you dress up this movie it will always suck, though i do think this will be the first of many Cloverfield films centred around a monster that attacks a city. The film concept is the typical monster attack but without the grand finale, there is about 45 seconds of actual monster footage and you cant feel in anyway close to the monster like many monster films have tried to do i.e Godzillla, Predator, Alien, Gweomul etc The monster isn't really seen until the end, there is a lot of shaky camera work because the film is a documentary of a groups perspective of the attack - think Blair witch project and u have the deal. I rated this film a 1/10 because it deserves it, if this is 1 part of a massive collection of to be released films then we should have been warned so we are not quick to judge, if you are planning on going to see this film then be warned, its likely you will walk away at the closing titles agreeing with this review, visually the film is standard and nothing new, there are no exciting new concepts that will throw future monster movies into a new parrallel - i cant help but feel like i was let down by the genre and JJ Abrahms, the acting is OK but you cant help your mind from screaming "If i was there, I Wouldn't HAVE DONE THAT!" The characters are a let down Half way through the film i had gotten soo frustrated with the dodgy camera work that i wanted to leave