90 mins wasted life

Rating: 2/10 (8 February 2008)

This film is a sham...
Every single trick has been used to try an con punters into the cinema. From the posters of Liberty with her head ripped off with New York in tatters behind her. to the viral promotion campaign it is very very lazy and Hollywood at it worst.
The story is terrible picture walking into a cinema half way through Godzilla and leaving 15 mins before the end and you will generally get the idea. No start, no end and what more nothing in between. The premise that a group of people carried around a camcorder round with them filming their ordeal is nothing new. However, the execution in this film feels so staged it could have been produced by Orange telecom execs themselves.
There is only one way a camcorder movie can feel genuine. When something really scary happens you miss that part of the film (because the person would be running for their lives) i.e. Blair Witch or the person puts their safety on the line tell an important message like a news reporter. This is where the film really falls short. Every time, you would expect the person to drop the camera and run for their lives the film makers conspire to make it as unrealistic as possible.
If you can accept the camera/timeline just feels wrong you are then confronted with possibly the most unrealistic motive since "the day after tomorrow". Our main man has just seen something happen to his brother less than 20 feet away and does not try and look for him. However, a quick call from "the love interest" and he is prepared to march through wave after wave of monster to search for her.