Great balance between a monster movie and a love story - IT DOES NOT DISAPPOINT

Rating: 10/10 (20 January 2008)

Or maybe this is what the perfect love story look like ? The story is told from a very interesting, unique, point of view. Instead of the usual, chase the monster, find its nest and weakness, and kill it with a gazillion bombs, this movie finds a new way to explore a horrible (yet familiar through all previous movies) event. The film itself focus more on how ordinary lives are affected by an attack on Manhattan, instead of filming a bunch of superhumans who can always find a way out of a tight spot and escape unharmed. It makes everything seem so real.
Matt Reeves & JJ Abrams did everything absolutely right. I love the subplot of what happened between Beth and Robby. Flashbacks in the movie made everything seem so human and reminds the audience of more normal times,when the only thing that matter was love, and each other.
In the end, in the midst of all the destruction, that's all there is left.