Revenger of the Sushi

Rating: 8/10 (27 April 2008)

First, just a few words on the subject of 'spoilers'.
Preface: Cloverfield is so completely bizarre as to be nearly immune to being spoiled by anyone's comments. I could have read every spoiler here and still been nowhere near ready for what was waiting. (But I'm signing onto the IMDb 'spoiler' program just in case, lol!)
The home-movie stylizing of this flick makes the plot entirely indescribable. Basically, you are as helpless to grasp the 'what' and the 'why' as are the main characters. I had hoped to discover the answer to some of the mystery by the end of the story but apparently, the 'what' is still alive and the 'why' is because our military is buying its weapons systems from the same folks who make Frisbees.
Seriously, this is a very good, very unique movie. Some of the best FX are the helicopter scenes of the beasty getting blasted by a B2 Stealth Bomber. How in the hell did it avoid being turned into sushi is beyond me!
Okay, I'm gonna wait for a sequel because it just wouldn't be fair to mess up New York like that without offering the Red Sox fans in Boston some equal time ;)
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