A fun 90 mins

Rating: 7/10 (19 February 2008)

I was expecting this movie to be a bit more scary. That's my main gripe. Nothing really bad happens to the characters (on screen) so no real fear is conjured up. It's scary in the same way the movie 'Earthquake' was scary, ie. like a disaster movie, not a horror movie.
This might be your bag but I needed more to make me feel the fear I would have, had I have been in NYC during the onslaught.
The fx are great and I think future monster movies will use more of this first-person approach to drive home realism. The monster is killer.
The acting's *ok* and doesn't really let the film down but is questionable in places of high emotion. Towards the end, I just yearned to watch people get eaten or something.
To sum up: a fun 90 mins but didn't knock my socks off.