"Godzilla" à la "Blair Witch Project" Style

Rating: 5/10 (31 October 2008)

The US Defense Department finds a videotape in the former Central Park. The footage shows a group of friends celebrating a surprise farewell party in the apartment of Rob Hawkins (Michael Stahl-David) in Lower Manhattan. Rob is a young man that is leaving New York to work in Japan and his friend Hud (T.J. Miller) is recording messages from his friends. Out of the blue, they are surprised by an earthquake and they see on the news that a ship has capsized in the harbor area. They go to the penthouse to see the accident and they actually witness explosions everywhere; when power goes out in the building, they run to the streets trying to save their lives from the attack of the monster.
The unoriginal tragedy movie "Cloverfield" is a boring combination of "Godzilla" à la "Blair Witch Project" style. The story is disclosed through the viewfinder of a hand-held video camera, and the dialogs and situations in the farewell party are silly, uninteresting and tiresome. The movie improves with the special effects of the attack of the monster, but the shaking camera and the characters are annoying. I had good expectations based on the overrated IMDb User Rating (7.5/10 @ 102,264 votes) and I was absolutely disappointed in the end. My vote is five.
Title (Brazil): "Cloverfield Monstro" ("Cloverfield Monster")