No Story No PLot No NOTHING

Rating: 4/10 (28 January 2008)

OK ladies and gentlemen lets recall what we learned in 10th grade English.
Plot=exposition then rising action then climax then falling action then resolution and/or denouement
We have our exposition in the party scene. good. great. excellent... We have rising action. OK good so far We have rising action. Wait didn't I just say that?? We have rising action. OK what is the climax? The End. WHATTTTT!!!!! No resolution? Are you kidding me??? You mean this movie ends prematurely and leaves the audiences thinking "wtf"?
Yes...all the movie is is one big WTF
Nothing is explained at all...not anything...not in the whole entirety of this debacle of a film.
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I think every Cloverfield fanatic i have heard thus far has said something on the order of "there's not info about the monster because of the viewpoint the film is shot from" or "its a personal video...what do you expect".
People these are limitations the movie IMPOSES ON ITSELF. The material quoted above is more or less excuses as to why the movie couldn't possibly suck (which it does in my opinion). Don't get me wrong i enjoyed my time at the theater but shortly after i realized there really wasn't anything special about this movie at all. I gave it four stars for being a great action film but nothing more. I guess it can't be anything more.
And the character development....man o man. It couldn't happen. There was the party scene at the beginning where everyone is first shown (exposition) but there's no actual character development going on then. The rest of the movie, of course, is hogged by the monster. Any appreciable character development could not happen. The whole movie long we are wholely concentrated on finding out just what the heck that monster is and how it became...making it impossible to care about the characters...so the monster is a mega hindrance to the film.
Stop accepting this film as greatness just because its as good as it was allowed to be