Unrealistic

Rating: 2/10 (12 February 2008)

Monster attacks New York! Could a movie with such promise fail to deliver? Sadly yes.
I was expecting to see a scary monster, to be killed by the suspense and to be entertained by cool special effects.
Like many others I was let down. It could have been as great as Alien, Final destination or Predator. But it wasn't.
To sum my impressions up:
The shaky shots quickly became aggravating. The 20 minute character-introduction party scene was fully wasted.
The acting was terrible, the characters wholly forgettable. You really did not care who died and who survived. You even wish you saw more of their gory demise.
Logical reactions in the movie are extremely rare, if not non-existent. No woman (or man?) I know would ever agree to go through a dark tunnel of indeterminate length. After being attacked, they did not look for anything to defend themselves like a weapon (even though they had just beaten off the baby monsters with conveniently-placed bludgers) they did not look for a flashlight, food, drink, proper bandages for their wounds, painkillers, nada.
Not to mention the fact that no cell phone network would EVER continue working after such an attack. Was the scene where the protagonist (the name strangely escapes me) is on the phone with his mother really necessary? I think not. The Hud character developed some mean camera skills after 10 minutes! And, do you really want me to believe that they climbed 57 or how ever many flights of stairs. Beth can run normally with a gaping presumably painful wound in her chest? You have GOT to be kidding.
And of course, among other questions, how did Beth make it back to her flat so quickly after leaving the party? And NO I would have not gone back for her either. Why did the monster eat people? Where were the dead bodies among the debris? SO much battery in that camera. This is so unrealistic. Am I the only one who found it strange that the monster always appeared in the same place the characters were?
Believe me, you'll be disappointed. No suspense whatsoever, you knew what was coming and wasn't too sure you cared about seeing it happening.
I'll give the movie 1 star for a promising idea and another star for the shot of the statue of liberty's head on the street. And that's being generous.