Overall good movie, but I knew what to expect.

Rating: 8/10 (27 January 2008)

The camera seems to be an issue for a lot of people, when the Blair Witch came out I remember my mother leaving the theatre due to the same reasons. Coming into this movie and reading IMDb regularly, we all knew the point of view was going to be through this camcorder throughout the duration of the movie, knowing this, if you get motion sickness do yourself a favor and simply do not go watch the movie and leave a bad review due to that.
As for the movie itself it was a good concept, you can complain about many things acting, why would people video tape at a time like this? the tsunami's a few years back were caught on several video camera's by brave people, its not far fetched for someone do document this. I do agree beth being impaled then revitalized by rob HUD etc is kind of far fetched. people taking pictures of the statue of liberty's head with camera phones, why not? Now, of course surviving the helicopter crash made the characters seem invincible, but in all honesty the tail rotor was dislodged the helicopter descended rapidly but still had the main rotor on to make the coptor "land hard" it didn't take a nose dive at 400 m.p.h and the percentage of survivors in any type of aerial crash is small, but its more believable in a helicopter rather a military jet,or commercial airline. Im sure this would have been a much more in depth topic if we were reviewing Cast Away with tom hanks as the movie should not of continued after his Christmas night descent into the pacific ocean going at 450 m.p.h. NOSE FIRST! haha
I wish the movie would have been narrated by a character explaining the monster, giving scientific explanations for the reaction to the parasites, and also I would of loved to see it from a military point of view, but obviously we are following the characters who don't care, but rather try to stay alive.
The ending, yes with Rob and Beth video taping themselves before the final bombs were dropped added to my thrill of the movie. I knew the military were preparing to level the monster with more powerful weaponry, and after being advised of the time in which the military would level Manhatten, Rob knew this was where the story was going to end he found refuge under a bridge in central park and began to say his last words and I heard complaints about rob and beth confessing their love, why is this a problem? I can only hope there will be a sequel to this movie with a higher budget and more explanations and answer. what is this hybrid monster where did it come from was the gigantic size really caused from something in the ocean? The reaction to the bites, why? obviously I have an idea why, but I don't like to speculate.