It's okay, decent Godzilla kinda thing.

Rating: 6/10 (19 January 2008)

I found myself laughing outloud though as all the mayhem unspooled on screen before me, just because this thing hit all the goofy Kaiju monster movie clichés right on the head.
Intrepid hero? check. Damsel in distress? Check. Idiotic decisions by group and leader? Check. Monster not shown enough/short-changing the audience? Check. Military unable to kill off Beastie til the end despite dropping enough firepower on this thing to level Manhattan? Check! You hadda like the staying power of the camera and it's batteries, by the way. I didn't buy for a second that the BIG GREEN MUTATED SALAMANDER WITH THE FIVE LEGS was able to swat down copters so far up in the air, either. That was-well, silly.
I DID like some of the cast-esp. Hud the camera guy, the black gal, and poor unfortunate Marlena who winds being bitten by one of those mutated deer ticks and blows up. I did enjoy some of the whole cliffhanger highjinks involving that leaning skyscraper and the rescuing of the damsel in distress, though the whole segment was idiotic-screw it, that's a monster movie.
I THINK the Monster is dead at the end-NUKED, you have to have SOME amount of believability here, ya know? See it, remember it's shaky-cam time, sit towards the back and remember to look away at certain times just because unless yer used to the whole nausea thing.
**1/2, see it but don't go in expecting it to be anything more than Godzilla meets blair witch.