Before Found Footage Movies Got Out Of Hand

Rating: 9/10 (28 February 2016)

Cloverfield takes the Godzilla formula but with the found footage style. Director Matt Reeves and Drew Goddard took something that should have been terrible, but gave it enough style and substance to make it a fun and entertaining thriller. You don't go to these films for Oscar worthy acting or ideas. You go to these films to shove popcorn in your face and have a fun time. That's why it deserves a 9 out of 10, because as a standard monster thriller, it is a well above average movie. The action is intense and not lazily filmed, you are never bored, and thanks to the Cabin in the Woods writer/director, has some humor in it as well. This is not a horror film, which some think it is. The acting is good enough to not take you out of the movie immersion. This is an excellent rental.