Fine idea, lame and annoying execution.

Rating: 1/10 (6 April 2008)

What could have been a great contribution to the film's genre, is frankly wasted almost right from the start. Once again (like in War of the Worlds) some ill conceived group of people, who are so unlikable, air-headed and preposterously good looking, you could swear you were watching them just 10 minutes earlier in that shïtty coke commercial, is thrown at the audience as if to say: 'Hi folks, these are your protagonists for this evening's entertainment, we apologize for the inconvenience.'
What type of writer's-cramp-inflicted screenwriter or producers can not learn from previous errors in almost all of these sorts of movies. Why do we have to suffer once again through the most impressive collection of jawdroppingly dumb yuppies, whose existence somehow seems to revolve around spewing the most vapid conversation around like if it was a sport. You know, like, I'm so totally amazed at this awesome dialog dudeman!
Cloverfield has some very impressive and convincing CGI, but when are we finally going to get treated to this art-form in a movie together with a good story and on par dialog? Transformers, another CGI wonder, was completely unwatchable for the exact same reason.
I realize that it's a cliché when I say that this movie could and should have been SO much better. Not in gritty realism, it covers that bit quite well (although I would have preferred some sort of mix of steady-cam and not-steady-cam footage). But rather through a decent plot, a decent (and relevant) build-up and a feasible script.
Hopefully the audiences will eventually grow exponentially tired of these sort of plot less caricatures of earlier, similar films, which really only give us an update on the progress of filming- , editing- and CGI-techniques.
Cloverfield scores a 7.8 on IMDb as I write this, which in actuality is a near 6.5 compared to the ratings of movies before studio-companies and the masses began to flood this site. But at least it's not a 8.5 or so for if it did, they might as well have shut down IMDb altogether.
4.5/10 Thanks for reading.