It'll take some time for another monster movie like Cloverfield to come

Rating: 10/10 (21 June 2008)

I saw this after most people had, so my expectations we're high. After watching it, I had realised I never had so fun much fun watching a monster movie. I used to love Godzilla movies but after a while, the fun just was sucked away as I grew up.
Then, I went to see this. It was so adult and so personal, it packs a heavy emotional punch. It had me thinking what I would do in a situation like that, how I would react with my friends dieing around me while being stalked by a creature in one of the largest cities in the world.
The beginning makes you show compassion towards the characters, it shows their personal lives and drama's we've all faced at one point in our life, then, it all gets turned upside down. The hand-held camera doesn't catch everything so it's like your watching from a first person perspective so you see what the characters are seeing from there perspective like when the army roll down the streets and Hud the cameraman ducks behind the cars as you hear the monster roaring, it adds that fear and terror as you feel like you hiding with him.
Then there is the monster. The monster is the most important part of a monster film, of course, and the production team have really made a monster to be scared of. Also, the idea of it shedding off little parasite creatures adds to the fear and terror and confusion that the characters on screen feel.
A must see, but is best viewed in a cinema if you caught it or with a home cinema system for the effect.
A brilliant masterpiece of monster film making without the tacky cheesiness of a B-movie.