Scary and uniquely filmed story...

Rating: 7/10 (9 August 2009)

1st watched 7/18/2009 – 7 out of 10 (Dir-Matt Reeves): Scary and uniquely filmed story about a group of friends and their perspective of an attack on New York City from what appears to be an alien. The movie is shown from the perspective of a hand-held camera owned by the main character in the story and guided most of the time by his friend(who he gave the job to at his going away party). The story is really about a group of friends and what they go through to stay alive and together thru this attack. The whole movie is a government-supported film that was found in the aftermath of the incident and starts with a couple enjoying their day then we're sent to the going away party and the calamity starts. We never really see what the creature attacking the city looks like til halfway thru the movie and not close-up til the very end. What we see instead is the destruction that's caused which makes for a very different movie of this type and adds to the interest. The ending is also very unique in that we don't really know what happens to the main characters or the creature. Although this isn't popular film-making it adds to the intrigue. If you like "Blair Witch Project", you'll like this one – it's really kind of a monster movie version of that one-of-a-kind film. But again, it's not for all tastes similar to the previously mentioned movie.