Great at the start, dies after the subway

Rating: 6/10 (19 January 2008)

WARNING: SPOILERS. I'll be honest, when I saw this movie's preview way back in June, I couldn't wait, all I wanted to know is what caused that destruction, and could it do more. I went into the movie hoping it would live up to the trailer I saw(I hadn't looked at it in previews or anything since i first saw the trailer for fear of expecting something it couldn't deliver.) I waited through the party, laughed at the main dude part, a little bit, and then eagerly awaited the head of liberty rolling through the street, feeling bad all the while that I was enjoying the (fictional) destruction of an American icon. It happened, I was happy, then something unexpected happened, I realized that up to this point, the entire beginning of the movie up to the point of the software store was brilliant. I didn't mind the camcorder shaking around and all, I watched the Bourne ultimatum weeks before, shaky cameras don't bother me, what did is that they kind of pulled what Doom the movie did, in relying on a first person for the monster encounter, not a good idea, although it was good for how all the characters reacted to certain moments. It's just after the subway part, the movie seemed to just die. Marlena had been bitten, they made it to the army area, and it just slowed down way too much after that. I also had a problem with the girl that was seemingly impaled on re barb, it looked like it had gone through a part of the chest that it would've pierced the lung, yet her breathing didn't grow more and more burdened, just tired (slight difference to me, tired you can recover from, burdened and your way too far gone to save, at least in the movies) At the end, the movie had fallen so far behind from what could've been that it couldn't save it. The characters and acting where great, the camera angle for that was great, the monster, not so much, the camera failed that too. The very end left much more to be desired and made the movie feel like it had failed epically, the monster was shown enough for me, but the end wasn't satisfying, can't even tell if it died. If they can make a sequel to answer some questions, that'd be great, they left enough loose ends to do so.