Wait for Cloverfield 2 :The explanation

Rating: 5/10 (21 January 2008)

It's difficult to perceive an acting performance as good when seen through a camcorder. Granted there were no fifty thousand dollar lenses, masterful cinematographers or great composers at work, but at the same time, I didn't care a damn for it's characters. Not the shaky and "concerned for his friend" cameraman, nor the lead character with his dangerous agenda. In fact at about 52 minutes, I wished they would have all died and the remaining 30 minutes could have offered some explanation as to what was actually happening.
To its credit, it was suspenseful, it was original in it's shaky cam sci-fi'ness, but didn't touch on anything that the Blair Witch Project hadn't done with a dramatically reduced budget years before, aside from a few guns and a few nice cg fx.
Speaking of and again to it's credit, CG shots of such magnitude are usually preplanned and executed through professional camera's, where markers, green screens and camera matching techniques take the place of actual directing and good old fashioned movie tricks. But anyway, to have added this kind of detail to moving camera footage is a testament to new and improving software, but not an extraordinary feat in itself, it simply "can be done, these days".
Well, I was bored to tears, my favorite moment in the entire movie was when the main character entered a store and we caught a moments glimpse of a reporters account of the goings on.
Maybe Cloverfield 2 can be a combination of fake footage from CNN, Fox News and BBC World News. The irony being of course, that FOX will defended George Bush's every timely action, just as they did with Katrina.
Good night.