I was rooting for the monster!

Rating: 3/10 (8 November 2008)

Five minutes into the film I found myself chanting, "Bring in the monster! Bring in the monster! " I have the strange feeling that movie monsters only attack when the persons in the film conduct themselves as useless to the bio diversity of the animal kingdom.
I couldn't wait for the monster to show up. I was hoping we'd get a good look at it so I could run out and get some t-shirts of it or maybe some action figures.
Technically the movie is brilliant. The effects and camera angles are outstanding. The dialogue is what murders this movie. I mean the dialogue is like the Texas Chainsaw Massacre of dialogue in a monster movie. The plotting falls apart as the characters don't act anything like real people. I was hoping Freddy Kruger or Jason Voorhees were going to show up and guest star in this to make it interesting. Had this just been people running for their lives instead of the sub plot nonsense it would have been a masterpiece. The characters were boring and lifeless and I'd have rather the monster gotten hold of a steady cam and run amok with it, us getting his viewpoint of the action.
Monster with a camera, great concept, you read it here first.
There've been some great monsters over the past 100 years in film. To call yourself a movie monster you have to earn it like the big boys did. Frankenstein, Dracula, Wolfman, Godzilla, King Kong, Alien, the Blob. All of them still horrifying creatures to this very day. Cloverfield, I missed why the movie was named this, I'll figure it out when I read more, this monster was cool, sadistic, sense of irony, powerful but no personality. Maybe there'll be a sequel or something that does what a movie is supposed to do, tell us a story.
So again, had awesome potential, great technical skill, bad acting, bad dialogue.
You want some monster movie dialogue watch the 1950's classic "Them!".
Now THAT'S a monster movie worth mentioning!