The First of it's kind

Rating: 7/10 (6 April 2009)

This movie is the first widespread, big screen pic that uses the first-person aspect, and it was phenomenal. Matt Reeves (the director) got it as close to realism as humanly possible with the movie still entertaining. Now everyone's seen the big monster movies and all the stereotypical things that come to with the title of a monster movie, but the one thing that was different was that it took place in America from start to finish. No other monster/disaster movie can claim that. People want to see the famous city of N.Y. get crushed by a giant alien because the people who live and have visited N.Y. can say 'hey, I know that place, that's pretty cool!' Cloverfield was, at times, more cheezy than I like, but it doesn't overshadow the footsteps that were left by the new and fresh ideals from producer J.J. Abrams that will be the backgrounds for horror/disaster movies to come.