Cloverfield: Maybe The Greatest Movie in 2008!

Rating: 10/10 (18 January 2008)

I just saw Cloverfield and never felt so impressed, and therefore moved to write a review here. This is also my first review here ever and it is my honor to say that Cloverfield must be one of the greatest movies in 2008. This is also the only great movie I've seen for the last year and I am usually a captious person. This movie provides us not the answer or reason, even not a story, just the facts, situation and strong feelings, which shocked me deeply.The characters are very real and their were not completing some "mission" but were only trying to deal with such extraordinary situation and to instinctively find something important to them. Although their action was a little bit unnatural in the face of certain death, but I believe many people will also do the similar things under the same circumstance.
The other successful part of this movie is the use of the view of "handheld camera". Not like the similar disaster movies, you will find that you are not sitting in the cinema and just clearly seeing others' disaster. You are with such poor persons. You are feeling what they were feeling, you are doubting what they did, you are scared as they were. Although the image is not clear and always interrupted, it just added the authenticity. The use of such way is really really great! Cloverfield is very successful to deliver the visual aspect of on-site feelings. It would be another stupid movie if the camera focused on the monster the whole time and nothing else.
I am very satisfied to devote one and a half hour of my life to this movie and may see it again. Just truly exciting. If you miss this movie, it would be a real disaster.