excellent film with all elements

Rating: 9/10 (19 January 2008)

Cloverfield was one of the better films i've seen in the past month. My friends and I were constantly laughing through-out the move from Hud's comic relief, which was realistic half the time but still funny. I read lots of reviews saying, "You hardly see the monster, motion sickness blah blah..." There was only like two points in the movie where the camcorder was shaking and thats because they were running for their lives, which is a given. You get some very awesome shots of the "cuthulhu" type monster. The cgi was also programmed very well in these shots. The beginning of the film helps you relate to these characters so nothing has to be explained later. The acting was great and so was the suspense/action. Overall a very good movie for its budget. Props to Abrams!
if this movie makes you "sick", from the camcorder, then you should never ride a merry-go-round or record home movies...it was not THAT bad.