what was all the fuss about?

Rating: 2/10 (18 April 2014)

Shortly before it's release, it had been hard to miss the online banners, adds and trailers for Cloverfield. And when the day finally came to see it, i felt cheated. In a way, this has been the same feeling of disappointment when watching The Blair Witch Project. The only difference has been that with the latter movie people recommended it.
In any case, the premise sounded good and execution looked promising for a couple of minutes. Afterwards we slip into the regular Hollywood action/thriller movie with predictable plot and mediocre acting. I'm not sure whether i should use the word Hollywood, but this is a word associated with movies in which the return of investment counts, not the artistic merit.
I've read somewhere that a group of executives or a group of overpaid ladies and gentlemen responsible for the big bucks thought for a long time about the finishing sequences of the movie. Well, a group of gamers would have chosen better plot twists for the price of pizza and a couple of rounds of soft drinks and beer...