Cloverfield is a thrill ride! Nothing more, nothing less.

Rating: 9/10 (19 January 2008)

Now a lot of you may hear about this movie lacking in certain areas such as: bad camera, boring opening, plot holes, lack of monster shots and lack of explanation. With that being said, those aren't the points that the movie was trying to hit. The movie is shot with a first person camera that is very shaky, but I can't imagine someone going through this and holding a camera very steady. The first part of the movie is not intense but sets up the story nicely to let you know why the people do the things they do in the movie. There are things that make you go like wait how did that happen, but you can look at every single movie ever made and pin-point problems like that. The lack of monster shots and explanation ADDS to the effect that the makers are going for in the fact that the movie takes place over a single night and the characters in the movie don't get an explanation either. This isn't a movie that was made to be some dramatic masterpiece with a neatly done opening and wrapping things up nicely with perfect closure. This movie was made to be a pure thrill ride and that's exactly what it is. A MUST SEE!