This Film Is So Rotten I Got My Money Back!

Rating: 1/10 (30 January 2008)

That's a first for me, and I've been going to the movies for close to 40 years! The film jerked around almost constantly throughout the entire movie! It was so bad that a warning was posted all over the place at the movie theater I attended. The sign read: " Warning! This film will can cause motion sickness similar to that of a roller coaster ride!" I have to admit, I thought at first the theater must be kidding, but when I ended-up getting Sea Sick, the warning was a gross under statement!
The acting was so bad that you end-up caring absolutely nothing for anyone in this pathetic film! All the characters came across as two-dimensional cardboard, with a pretty face! The beginning of the story reminded me of a dull soap opera until the monster strikes, then it reminded me of a campy, Made-in-Japan, 1950's style, monster movie! How dull and unimaginative can you get?
I guess the worst part was how much the destruction was made to remind anyone without amnesia how horrible the 9/11 disaster was! What a filmmaker will do to make a buck! Members of my own family missed being killed or injured by the skin-of-there-teeth, or from dumb luck! Do I, and tens of thousands of other movie goers, who were directly affected by 9/11 need to be reminded of this real life horror when we go out to be entertained? Memo to future filmmakers: Try and have a little imagination and wreck a different city next time!
And to think the director of this film, J.J. Abrams, is the same director working on the new Star Trek movie. I can just imagine what a muddled mess he's going to create if Cloverfield is the best he can do!
This is, without a doubt, absolutely one of the very worst movies I have ever seen in my entire life! What ever you do - don't bring your children, or someone with post traumatic stress issues, an inner ear infection or prone to migraine headaches to this movie! You'll be doing them a very big favor, indeed!