After six months of growing anticipation...

Rating: 10/10 (31 January 2008)

...Cloverfield certainly did not disappoint!!! Six months ago, while settling down into my cinema chair getting ready to watch transformers, i saw a teaser trailer that bemused and intrigued me. It instantly grabbed my attention and my first thought was "Wow, what is that film?!?!". Since that day myself and my three house mates have counted down the days and analysed all of the information that Cloverfield's viral marketing campaign had to throw at us, each of us becoming more and more hooked on a film that we still knew so little about.
But now after all the waiting i have just returned home from watching a staff preview of Cloverfield at Cineworld in Milton Keynes (UK) and it is safe to say that the film completely blew me away and far surpassed my expectations! I won't give anything away for the sake of people who have followed the viral marketing and these boards here in the UK but trust me when i say this film is in one word "amazing". The pacing is perfect and as soon as the action hits the film never lets up and it never lets you go. Never before in a film have i literally sat on the edge of my seat (trying to get a better look at the monster because i felt so involved with the action!!!) and held my breath during some of the most intense sequences and situations ever committed to film.
Everyone who hasn't seen this film yet needs to go and see it as soon as possible, this film is perfectly crafted for the big screen and waiting for a DVD release will not fully do it justice. Also do not be put of by talk of "motion sickness" and "overly shaky camera", neither me or my friends felt any of these effects, if anything the camera style just puts you right there amidst the action!
Cloverfield - 10/10
p.s - The monster is FANTASTIC, it looks like something ripped from the world of silent hill mixed with one of the creatures from resistance fall of man...simply brilliant design!!!