Scary, exhilarating and pure fun...

Rating: 9/10 (31 January 2008)

Cloverfield with it's amazing trailer hatching itself on the internet created a lot of buzz and I'm happy to say that it lived up to it.
The first 10 minutes of this movie is just boring plain and simple. It shows just how corny going away videos are. But when "earthquakes" rock New York the fun begins. Cloverfiled doesn't try to be revolutionary with it's Blair Witch style making. It's designed to make you dizzy and then throw monsters at you. It does exactly that.
The film spins from one intense monster scene to another with surprising well fluidity. The action is nonstop and the characters are very well acted. I was at the edge of my seat for about the whole film. I love the subway scene.
It's nice to have a monster movie where you have no clue what is going on. I don't like how in every monster movie you find out what the monster is halfway through and it's always some mutated thing. Cloverfield doesn't tell you what is attacking New York because they don't know either. The characters speculate whether we created it, if it's an alien or some oceanic Godzilla.
Cloverfield is pure fun if you can turn your brain off and enjoy the intense scares.