Please don't waste your money or your time on Cloverfield.

Rating: 1/10 (22 January 2008)

I repeat: Please DO NOT waste your money or your time on this idiotic movie. The hand-held camera gave one of my companions motion sickness and he had to leave the theater for a period of time so he wouldn't throw up. The plot can be summed up as thus: Monster attacks. People die. Sure, there's some soap-operaish chatter about how Rob and Beth slept together and they're so "in love" and Rob is going to Japan and(OMG!) Beth brought some other guy to his going-away party...but honestly, I couldn't care any less about the characters.When Rob's brother Jason died, I felt only the slightest "Oh, I guess that's sad."I found the utter implausibility of some of the events to be just stupid. For example, Beth gets practically impaled on a pole in her apartment and she "can't move." But when Rob and company finally rescue her, she is able to both kiss Rob and run across Manhattan? In what realm of possibility does that even make sense? The special effects are cheesy. (I laughed at the sound the smaller monsters made.) I wasn't scared in the slightest of the big monster. I kept praying for the movie to be over and wishing I could have the $8 back that I was robbed of. Finally, it was over and I was thrilled that I would no longer be feeling a headache on account of the "groundbreaking" and "original" hand-held camera work. The "Blair Witch Project" did it first...and someone could make a similar movie in their backyard andpost it on YouTube.So don't waste your money or your life watching "Cloverfield." That's 74 minutes of your life you'll never get back.