The best monster movie so far

Rating: 8/10 (3 February 2009)

The best monster movie so far, not the best monster movie ever. In favour of the former, there comes the no-superhero and no-happy-ending story. Add the shaky camera perspective, realistic fx and pinch of defeatism to get a decent picture of miserable human being confronting a superior phenomenon. The plot is surprising, as for the first 15 minutes I was pretty sure that the guy at the DVD rental tried to palm off some college romance as a monster movie to me. But it's a good endeavour to usher the audience into a warm and somehow misleading mood before the 'sh' hits the fan.
On the other hand, despite not having Will Smith pounding an alien in a more or less cowboy-style, scornful manner, the characters are lacking a more in-depth attitude towards the so called 'unknown'. They rather tend to act like in a catastrophic movie, where the circumstances are dramatic, yet within the boundaries of human insight.
Nonetheless with every next minute I enjoyed the movie more and more, maybe because at the very first glance it seemed a low-budget horror to me with a pretty unknown cast. But the aforementioned fx quality and plot construction finally made it a must-see for all you Godzilla and King Kong fans out there.