Excellent!

Rating: 4/10 (8 February 2008)

Cloverfield is a brilliant film. I was expecting it to be reasonably good, but it really was excellent.
The only thing that forced me to lower the rating, was the fact that it almost killed me. For about half of the film, I had to look at the ground, walls or close my eyes, due to the extreme and prolonged motion of the hand-held camera. If I didn't do so, i probably would have been carried out. This seemed to have no effect on a lot of people, but I recommend watching it with some water or nourishment in the anticipation that you'll be sick. Despite making me severely ill, I wouldn't say the hand-held camera was a bad part of the film. If the experience of a film is ruined by something such as this, then it would be bad, but in most cases it wasn't a problem.
Watching this was incredible. It was really like watching an actual camera tape. Even little things like camcorder focusing and features were incorporated. So much thought has been put into this film, it's really great.
There's even a little secret bit at the end that you'll probably miss if you blink, but it's really amazing.