Not as good as I thought

Rating: 2/10 (1 February 2008)

Well basically, the movie was not as good as I thought it would be. You get all hyped up about this movie, and the monster that goes out to destroy the city, when basically, despite it being a movie, most of the plot is stupidly unreal, and in some places, pretty boring and dull.
Firstly, why would anyone in their right mind want to go back into the centre of the city to rescue his loved one when clearly she would be dead - yet when he somehow manages to find her in her apartment located somewhat 30 floors up (climbing up 1 skyscraper then climbing over the roof top onto the next half-collapsed skyscraper into the apartment) and finding her alive with a metal pole of some sort stabbed through her chest, then lifting and moving, then she's still able to run and seem perfectly fine.
The acting of the characters was just terrible and in some ways pathetic. When they are walking along what's meant to be a 40 degree corridor, you can clearly see that it's flat yet they make pathetic attempts to make it look like as if they are really struggling.
There was no character build up throughout the film at all. You do not get to know the characters and don't even give 2 monkeys whether they die or live or not. In some points, you want to urge them to die and hurry up, especially the fat annoying guy who is recording all the "action" yet manages not to drop the camera once, while running backwards from some of the monsters offspring that looks like something out of starship troopers.
The people also somehow manage to survive a helicopter crash from dropping out of the sky from above the height of skyscrapers due to the monster being bombed and somehow reaching out and hitting the copper down.
Do not go and see this film even if you £6 to spare. You may as well put it towards good use such as buying some dog food for your dog. The 'jerkyness' and 'wobbleing' of the camera effect also became irritating after about 1 hour.