Boring and scary at the same time....

Rating: 2/10 (18 February 2008)

In one episode of The Simpsons Bart says: I've never thought it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows at the same time. Something similar happened to me with Cloverfiled. It's both boring and scary at the same time, even though such thing should not be possible.
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Boring because of the characters and action. No connections to the characters were created at all. The party itself at the begging was most likely expected to do that, for example by introducing the "secret" love theme, but I found myself yawning many times and looking around, because there was absolutely nothing real happening on the screen. And that nothing was happening to a bunch of shallow, dull characters, all recorded by a guy, whose personality would make even Gandhi beat him.
Horror movie, to be scary, must be believable. This wasn't. I could describe many scene here to support my words, I'll do it just once. The scene when they get caught in the land attack on the monster... that was a good one, best in the movie... the soldiers fire a rocket on that thing. Nothing, no harm. A tank fires at it and hits, again no harm. Okay, this can happen, it was a huge monster. But later a B-2 drops its FULL load of bombs on that creature and there is a couple of direct hits visible. And, like three minutes later, there's not a single scratch on its skin. I am no military expert, but no one will make me believe, that if a living thing gets hammered like this, it can survive. That's rubbish. The monster wasn't that big.
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So why it was scary to me? Because of the characters. Are they really a reflection of today's society? So shallow, childish, immature? I'm not talking about panicking when you see a Monster gnawing on the Statue of Liberty, I'm talking about the moments in between, when they had a chance to cool down, to talk. That was scary.