Camera Crazy!

Rating: 6/10 (31 December 2008)

I can see the up side of this movie, but to be honest I saw every side imaginable; the camera shakes wildly around like a caged tiger, and the actual story might seem better if I could actually observe it! There was not much that pleased me in this film, but the Woolworth Building's destruction seemed somewhat ironic. There is, of course, a monster - which might actually be very realistic and scary, if only I could see it for more than a few seconds! The film is basically a bunch of jumbled up ideas presented through a whirling camera - it certainly adds realism to the movie, don't get me wrong, but it's like watching a film for two hours on your phone. There are large amounts of crawling in around the city avoiding the monster, and if the camera does not make you sick this might do the trick; the relationships of the characters become the primary focus in the film, and the development between them is frankly awful. The film's use of CGI and VFX is brilliant, but provides little compensation for this slow-paced rather 'shaky' production.