Disappointing Disaster Movie

Rating: 4/10 (17 January 2008)

As a big fan of disaster movies like 'The Day After Tomorrow', 'Titanic' and the 'Godzilla' series, I found this movie to be very disappointing. I believe that the director's idea of filming the movie as if it were done by someone with a hand-held video camera a bad idea. For starters half the time you are watching the cameraman's feet or you never really get a good look at anything happening. Also the fact that it is filmed like this, gives you very little background information about the monster in the film and whats going on. Another reason why this can hardly be called a disaster movie is because you see very little destruction of buildings or people being killed. The whole Statue of Liberty picture to hype up the film was barely used, you never see the monster destroying the statue, you just see it's head in the street... weak. I see disaster films to see buildings destroyed, landmarks ruined and people suffering, this film completely lacked all those aspects. Finally the ending was pathetic, aside from the fact that for a disaster film it was very short, you never get to see the city in ruins, just people's faces looking at the camera.
If you are a fan of disaster films, AVOID and see the excellent 'I Am Legend' instead.