The way monster movies were meant to be.

Rating: 9/10 (19 January 2008)

I had been looking forward to this movie for months. I knew that it was being told from the perspective of a movie camera found after the fact, so I was prepared for a lot of crappy angles and jumpiness ala Blair Witch Project...but I was not expecting to be taken to the edge of my seat and held there for the remainder of the movie.
The plot is fairly basic: some friends are gathered at a farewell party for one of their buds who has been offered a high paying job in Japan. The guy gets into an argument with a girl he slept with a month ago and she leaves in a huff. All of a sudden there is a tremor and the power flickers off and on. What then follows is terror and insanity beyond anything that Hollywould has thrown at me for the last 5 years. These people are trying to escape from the city when the central character gets a call from his friend who was injured and he decides to go rescue her.
I will not make any attempt to describe what this creature looks like except this: if a mountain could be said to walk or stumble. It follows no body pattern that I can say belongs to one particular type of organism. Cthulhu of the Lovecraft mythos could not have been as huge, intense, or as insane as this beast. Absolutely NOTHING the army does to it seems to affect it in the slightest.
This film does not tie up any loose ends, and to me that is a good thing. As with the Blair Witch Project its what you Don't see that makes this film. Most (if not all) of the loose ends are not tied up. If you absolutely must know what this creature was or if it was finally stopped, sorry but you will be disappointed.
All in all this was an excellent film for what it is: a fast paced odyssey of pure destruction and chaos that, while it may not have great acting or much of a plot, will grab you and hold you in your seat...until it shakes the life out of you and swallows you whole that is.