Great Movie

Rating: 10/10 (16 January 2008)

I just saw this movie an hour ago in Australia.
The movie itself is very original with a great story to it made better with it being shot through hand held camera.
The monster itself you actually only see twice in it's whole but even then it is quite hard to take in all the details of it, while the rest of the movie you see bits and pieces of it. It isn't explained were it came from or why. It also seems to reproduce what seems like some spider monkeys with several legs and the head of a piranha while displaying different characteristics to the actual big creature it self.
The main characters were very good and it was made a lot better by not being big name holly wood stars. Also at the end of the movie you aren't really told if one of the main characters actually escaped in the helicopter. It does take a while to get into the movie before it does come extremely intense and you really want to know what happens next or if it has ended, as there were several times in the movie when you think it is over but it isn't.
Overall J.J. Abrams has done a great job with this however seeing how he doesn't explain everything that is a let down but that is what he usually does but that doesn't stop me from seeing it again tomorrow.