was this a cheaper film to make ?

Rating: 2/10 (8 June 2010)

I had really looked forward to watching "Cloverfield" but had not expected it to be shown so quickly and on Channel Four in the UK. Having resisted the temptation to leave it early I persevered. Did we need to have the over long camcorder farewells to our hero leaving for Japan without any idea as to why as none of those interviewed left sufficient of a favourable impression that I cared at all who lived or who died or who was saved and ended with the impression that this fuzzy strategy stuck the Director with this approach for most of the film at the end of which I felt no resolution and still wondering whether it was made on a shoestring budget but probably wasn't ?