perhaps the very worst movie ever made, including in the future

Rating: 1/10 (13 July 2010)

If I gave my 12-year old nephew four quaaludes and handed him a camera, he could do better than this.
Plot: A number of the most low-IQ, shallow, uninteresting characters in the history of fictional constructs have a video camera when ooooh, a monster, descends on the city. And what a monster, a really silly CG thing that would have, on its own, made me laugh, had I not been already angry plotting the destruction of every person responsible for this load of doo-doo. Nor, since we hate the characters so much can we possibly care what the monster does.
The movie-maker said in a DVD interview that when something goes wrong in real life, as in if a real monster attacked, that this is the sort of record there would be of it, jerky, limited. This is of course correct. (We know that from raw home video of 9/11) But that's real life. In movies or fiction, we want a plot, coherence, a through-story, and heroes who are heroic and occasionally say a full grammatical sentence with actual content. We want filmmakers to buy a tripod and hire actual actors, write a script, y'know, little things like that. We don't want to pay actual real money to see a simulacrum of what panicked people who don't know how to even hold a camera might do. We actually expect professionals to make a movie, that's what the industry is about, and if this is the future of it, I'll stick to reading books, thank you very much.
What movie the people who rated this highly saw, I cannot tell you. That I cannot rate it in negative numbers frustrates me.