Now that is a monster movie

Rating: 9/10 (10 April 2008)

I haven't enjoyed a movie so much in ages. No, it isn't the greatest movie of all time, but it's one of the best of its kind I've ever seen. So the hand-held POV isn't wholly original, who cares? It works. And works so well.
What is striking about this is it actually ends up being moving. Too many of these films make it (a) easy to spot the order in which characters will die and (b) make you start wishing they would all die horribly. This isn't so predictable. And by the end of this, partly because of the intimacy of the viewer's involvement in the action and partly because this is refreshingly thin on stereotypes, you end up caring about them.
A thoroughly good watch, some genuine jump-in-the-seat moments, enough cleverness and allusions for the movie geeks amongst us and just plain enjoyable, which is rare enough in any year.