Awesome Movie!

Rating: 9/10 (22 May 2008)

Cloverfield to me was by far the best monster film made. What would have been tense by the use of fixed camera positions was even made more so because instead they used a shaky cam (or...a camera very much like you'd buy at the store). It was made even more original by making it supposedly a video recovered after the incident, though what makes me give this movie a 9 star rating was only because of the unrealistic of it. The camera was put through so much crap that I was completely surprised that the video file was fully intact upon finding.
They even added more mystery to it by not revealing of what the movie is about, other than the near complete devastation of New York City, which as we all know that if a movie involves complete devastation it is a must see. Even more so, there was only 20 minutes worth of the boring crap, and the rest was pure action! What also adds to the suspense and mystery is that they do not disclose too much information about the monster, in fact, there is only one really clear shot of the monster. It gets the imagination rolling and keeps the tension up.