Enough Emotional Excess

Rating: 4/10 (27 January 2008)

Why do people feel the need to create a story around meaningless emotional connections for the audience in order to have a good movie? PLEASE STOP, THANK YOU! I wanted good effect and explosions, asbestos shooting into the sky, dogs and cats living together.. TOTAL ANARCHY! What did I end up with? I got to chase behind some guy whining about the love of his life that just treated him like garbage while his friends follow him blindly, and yet somehow I am supposed to feel connected? Don't give me that "people react under pressure nonsense" guess what, people are what they are, and under pressure it only intensifies. As a combat Marine you will have to take my word for it, or find out yourself when a monster from wherever visits your town.
Typically when a monster is demolishing buildings, eating people, or throwing the Statue of Liberty's head around, that is usually enough for me to say , "Ok, that can't be good".
You want me to be attached or to scare me? Show me something I don't expect. When I can tell you what will happen from one scene to the next, either you are foreshadowing or explaining too much. I will simply say without spoiling anything, when rats are running, you should too. I believe I have explained enough about this being predictable.
And yes. I don't care what you get from this, no movie, especially one that amplifies itself as a thriller should be 80 minutes long. Disney does a better job with timing. It was short, it felt short. The film-makers could have done A LOT more with this. Sorry folks, I am just simply disappointed.
On a good note - Nice Monster!