Pretty Good and Very Original but Fails on many Levels

Rating: 6/10 (19 January 2008)

I just saw Clover-field with six of my friends last night and I enjoyed it but I also thought it failed on many levels. Here I'll separate the good from the bad.
Good: The movie was a pure popcorn movie that kept you at the edge of your seat until the very end. The visual and sound effects were amazing for a movie with a very low budget of 35 million dollars, I mean the visual effects looked like they belonged to a movie that coast at least 100 million dollars! This was good and bad for the movie, the camcorder that the entire movie was shot on made it original, something you never saw before. The best part of the camcorder being the only thing that shoots the movie was interesting because all of the camera movements are something we usually do with a camcorders! Also I liked how the camcorder showed the monster only briefly, that made it more realistic. But it also had some negatives that I will explain in the bad. The movie also proved you don't need a amazing story to make a film a good one you just need to be original, and I admire what this film did.
Bad: As I said the camcorder did make the movie more interesting but it also brought the film down, I will explain how. The constant shaking and spinning of the camera made me nauseous and I'm not the only one who thinks that, I think half the country does! Some people even threw up! The thing that annoyed me the most about this movie was the ending, IT WAS PROBABLY THE WORST ENDING IN THE HISTORY OF MOVIES! I don't even get what happened at the end it was such a bad ending. The main characters died in the end and it was sad which made the ending worse.
So anyway this movie was good and bad on many levels but overall it was good and I think it will do very good in the box office.