I think....

Rating: 5/10 (22 January 2008)

I didn't care about the hand-held camera stuff. The story, was... OK. The acting was quite.. good. The plot was... interesting.
What disappointed me the most about the movie was the monster!!! What the ?? I had seen this drawing of the Cloverfield monster (Spectacular, creepy, impressive whale-thing with bugs all over it), then I was told it was a fake, but then I assumed the real monster would be even more impressive, given the dimensions of the destruction (skycrapers falling, explosions, the noise, etc.).
Instead, we are treated to this anorexic version of the Harry Potter troll!! only thing missing was the log in his hand.
So when you see this effeminate monster strutting its Naomi Campbell legs all over Manhattan, with a head made of poop, you think again... can this flaming monster cause so much destruction? It didn't even look big enough.
That was my pet peeve with the movie.