Cloverfield - more like cow pasture.

Rating: 1/10 (10 February 2008)

This was truly an awful film. I can't impress upon you enough how dreadful it was. Possibly the worse film I have ever, ever, seen in my life. The people writing good reviews for it can't possibly have been watching the same movie, did they release a different version in the UK? I read lots of online reviews and sat happily expecting the scares to come flooding, but after some annoying young people talked a bit at a party, something went bang and then the rubbish ensued. I was kept interested in the first really dull half hour by the promise that something good was going to happen in a minute....it didn't, in fact, it didn't happen in the first 125 minutes.
It was dreadful, awful, terrible and stupid beyond belief. I am left to surmise that people just say they liked it so they don't feel so bad about having spent the money to go see it.
Don't do it. I beg you. Go see The Bucket List or No Country For Old Men - both of which I would have paid double to see.
There was no good acting, or tension, or frights or pretty much - story line.
Some bloke with a camcorder runs round in the dark (for pretty much the entire film) and you get flashes of something, what was it? who knows, then a lot of blowing things up and screaming, some more running about in the dark, some screaming, a bit of blowing things up, an explosion that should have killed everyone - but unfortunately didn't...
There, now you don't even need to go see it. Just read the above paragraph for an hour and twenty five minutes and you'll pretty much have it down.
The ONE thing I was impressed with was whatever camcorder they used managed to survive when it should have been broken in the first half hour. What ever that was, I want one of those.