Recommend post midnight watching

Rating: 6/10 (23 November 2014)

So I managed to wait till 1am on a Sunday morning/Sat night to see this film and I think that helped and worked better than say Tu @ 10 am or other times.
If you want a roller-coaster movie and you've read enough of the Blair Witch/Godzilla analogies to be interested, I'd say stop and just check out the movie at a time that works for you.
Spoilers may follow:
To me, while the idea of this being a visceral response to 911 is understandable, I took it in a broader sense of a response to death. Like death, the monster is mostly kept out of our view; arguably a better film and a better life comes from incorporating the monster more forthrightly, but this film is not the place to have that argument.
There's not time, there's a friggin' monster on the loose. Any sense of security is false, and death has many manifestations, not just the overwhelming black shadows cast from above....there are smaller crazier minions and even some form of micro-organism infiltration that can really get under your skin.
Death is inevitable, so the response from this film is a quest for love. And that seems fair enough for me. Death still sucks.
Plenty of "Harrison Ford School of Acting" (people physically damaged, never mind their mental interiors). The Gen Y dialog and Hud as an affable, goofy, overly talkative big teddy bear of an Ishmael might be a deal-breaker for some, but I found him as endearing as he was essential in this film.
I could see other interpretations coming out of this movie in film theory classes (the monster as celebrity, and Hud as the paparazzi?) could be fun to read over.
Really more of a 6.5 for me....tricky to balance how much to (over)think about this.