A Really Good Monster Film

Rating: 9/10 (22 May 2008)

This movie is very enjoyable and done with a brain and a heart. I love how it was done thought a hand-held camera and that it only focuses on people on the ground-level and does not try to explain where the monster comes from. It is also a short film, just under an hour and a half, which is nice to see in an age when movies over 2 hours is becoming the norm.
The basic plot of the film is Rob is having a surprise leaving party because he was about to leave for Japan. During this party there is a powercut and in the distance there is an explosion the head of the Statue of Liberty is blasted into the middle of Manhattan. The police and the army come out in full force and try to direct people out of Manhattan. However the Brooklyn Bridge is destroyed and Rob then gets a phone call from his 'girlfriend' and he decides to try and save her and do it before 6 AM.
The film starts off slow, but that is because it meant to be like someones home movies. You also get see like bits of Rob's life a few weeks before the attack. The producer J.J. Abrams is a very clever man an know how to make a film and market it. It is scary and you do fill the panic. I also didn't like the bit (in a good way) when the monster attacks the helicopter need the end of the movie. This is because I don't like heights or flying.
Cloverfield is a good movie and I think that it will work very well on DVD.