Short but sweet....expect a sequel and will be there for it.

Rating: 10/10 (18 January 2008)

For fans of the genre, Cloverfield refines a not much ventured upon perspective in film making with a YouTube first-person style approach. Allowing the audience to almost experience a catastrophic and unexplainable event. It combines eyewitness documentary with sci-fi monster suspense without failing to deliver although brief, a deeper meaning of love, loss, friendship, and survival. The film gives the audience a realistic but fictional account of how the human psyche would react to the stresses of an extraordinary event while giving the viewers only as much information as acquired by the characters themselves. All this with the contemporary backdrop and the, "Hey I was invited to the party too?" immersion make Cloverfield a must see in its own right. *encore*

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