About as bad as it gets

Rating: 1/10 (27 January 2008)

The 'Blair Witch' effect may have been popular about 10 years ago, but I really thought Hollywood had grown out of it and realised that if people wanted to see the camera moving around as if held by a drunken idiot one would only have to look as far as Uncle Jimmy's Christmas video, which would undoubtedly have been more entertaining than this sack of crap. The plot - non existent, the story - a linear traipse through a New York battered by some creature that has materialised from God knows where... and I doubt you'll really care anyway. The main characters are a bunch of drunken party kids who you care even less about, one of whom seems to think that keeping the video camera going and waving it around as much as possible is more than his life's worth, literally. Half way through I was praying for him to die if only so that someone else could pick up the camera, and hopefully do a better job. But no, they were all equally bad - a three year old could have done better.
The one saving grace in this whole sewer of a film was the remarkable technology brought by Sony's camera division. They've managed to create the most indestructible camera I've ever seen! From helicopter crashes to the military mass-flattening New York, this little baby just shrugs it all off. Congrats Sony, I think you have a winner there!