It's eating people

Rating: 7/10 (5 February 2008)

When a group of friends are at the goodbye party of Rob Hawkins (Michael Stahl-David) some strange creature attacks the city of New York. The film show to us the experiences of the friends dealing with this unknown creature.
This all the plot of this film and certainly is not the best thing of the film. But the way the film is made with the style of an amateur tape and the hand held camera is great and the visual part is just perfect. To talk about the monster is unnecessary because is still a mystery and is going to be very useful to create a franchise in a very near future. But still i think it missed something with the monster because i don't like the love story that is behind the main plot, i know that they are trying to make us feel something about the characters but for me the love history is not even credible.
The cast of the film is good, with new actors making a nice job but still nothing special and again the visual part is more important and in consequence is the best thing.
And i haven't watch a marketing for a film like this one in the last years, create almost a cult for the film before it release. I wasn't very excited about the film but i was expecting the revival of the monster film and for me in this film is missing something.
Conclusion: judging by the reaction of yesterday's audience, the result was really strange because most of the people didn't feel that the film has an end and some people was like in shock but most was really dissatisfied. I didn't feel any of those feelings and i think that is what is missing, i mean to feel really disappointed or to be in shock and confused about it. Anyway for me is a decent film but of course is not the best sci-fi/monster of the last years but still have some really interesting things. Worth watching it in the cinemas for the perfect visual part, well only before the release of "No Country for Old Men" and "There Will Be Blood" in my country. 7 out of 10