Not as good as people say

Rating: 7/10 (15 February 2008)

After all the hype me and a couple of friends decided to go watch Cloverfield a few weeks earlier, and I have to say I was not that impressed. First of all, all the shaking and the bad camera work was not nauseating that's all just an exaggeration. But what really bothered me is that the character holding the camera (conveniently called HUD or Heads Up Display) wasted most of his time filming people and soldiers running around rather than the monster itself, I found this very annoying and quite stupid. The quarter of the movie is in a party, an extremely boring party might I add. At the end of the movie i felt kind of unsatisfied for numerous reasons. by the end of the movie nothing was clarified, I felt that the hole movie was just a big publicity stunt for the producers to make more money out of the sequel. The monster itself was very good and extremely cool, I did however recommend Cloverfield to my brother but I told him not to expect much. It is very over-hyped and they try to pass this movie as something that it is not like I told my brother it's just another monster movie nothing more.