Cloverfield - don't waste your time or money

Rating: 1/10 (27 January 2008)

If you plan to see this movie, SAVE YOUR MONEY". It SUCKED!!! If you can get past the shaky camera (it was like watching someone's bad wedding video) which gave me a headache 10 mins into the movie. You never know what or where this creature came from or what happens in the end. most of the "special" effects where cheezzzy to say the least and the only way they could pull them off was to film in this amateur home video, Blaire witch fashion. further more the whole movie was totally unbelievable. If I had to give a thumbs up or thumbs down I could only give this movie the finger. I should have gone to see Rambo!!!
After posting this comment on another site, someone else had posted that this movie was based on a comic book and stated:
The Japanese oil company TAGRUATO drops a satellite (Chimpanz III) into the ocean as part of viral marketing (shown at the end of the movie when Rob and Beth were on the ferris wheel). TAGRUATO works with SLUSHO (a slush company), as the main ingredient for SLUSHO is found at the satellite dropzone (deep ocean). While searching for satellite and ingredients, they woke Cloverfield (the monster).
The main ingredient of Slusho apparently turns a tiny fish into a HUGE whale, which explains the size of Cloverfield.
So I have to add:
If you make a movie based on a book, comic or otherwise, You should have an introduction to the story line. You don't make a movie which starts in the middle of a story. It's like making spiderman w/o explaining how he got his powers. Movies reach a much bigger audience than any book ever can. The movie itself minus the 20-30 minutes of previews and the never ending credits, wasn't that long. They could have added another 30 mins to the movie on an intro. The story line had potential but they executed it poorly. It was like watching a Quentin Tarantino movie that never jumped back to the beginning of the story.