Much better than I expected!

Rating: 8/10 (1 May 2008)

I had heard various things about this, but not much. That it ghoulishly used the NYC terrorist attacks to it's advantage. That it was pointless because it didn't explain anything.
Imagine if someone told you there was a film where a giant monster levelled NYC and it was really scary. You'd laugh right? Imagine those old Godzilla films with a man in a rubber suit and it all caused by radiation.
Now imagine watching the film and actually finding it a serious and scary horror film. Told from the point of view of the people being stomped on by Godzilla in an ultra realistic style. With friends and family and real fears. Imagine there IS no explanation for this. It's not a big rubber T-Rex - it's something slimily organic and alien. You are facing death at every turn, no-one knows what it is, nothing is working, society is effectively destroyed as far as you can see and people are dying all around you -it's real. This is what this film achieves.
I found the film personally all the more satisfying for not explaining anything. Moving from this or explaining the monster would have distanced viewers from the realism the film had established, to the extent of the whole film supposedly being filmed on a single camcorder by people living through the event.
This is from the makers of Lost, and of course a huge amount of speculation has appeared about almost everything in the film, including fake websites and violent fan arguments.
Just see the film Godzilla shouold have been or may have seemed to audiences 50 years ago, vastly improved..