Great Movie...but those prone to sea sickness beware!

Rating: 7/10 (18 January 2008)

I really enjoyed this one. Although it's a short hour and 20 minutes, it's a fun ride. You'll feel like the party last forever before the action gets started, but it goes at a fairly good pace after that. The acting isn't academy worthy, but it is certainly good. I can't really fault any of the actors as they all did a great job considering they are all unknowns (you wouldn't know that from the quality job). The CGI is screen worthy. Very fast glimpses for the most part. The smaller budget shows a bit there. Action scenes are good and some of them have a good tension to them letting your mind try to figure out whats coming. I liked it for those points.
All in all, a fun movie. I should warn you that if you had problems with Blair Witch, you may want to skip this one. The vomit cam can be a bit much. One of the people in my group actually had to get up and go to the bathroom because it made him nauseous. It's can get pretty extreme in scenes.
Definitely worth a watch!
***Minor Spoilers Follow*** ' ' ' ' ' ' For those that are moaning about the magical battery in the camera and such..Hello, there is only 1 hour and 20 minutes on the camera, meaning it filmed for that long. It wasn't running all night. For those complaining that the subways were empty, don't forget that they had already evacuated most of the city by that point. These people were running towards the monster, not away from it. The area they were in was already deserted. I will agree that this camera with it's night vision was a bit much to believe. That's more of a military type hardware, not some Best Buy video camera ;) Last but not least, did anyone catch the quick shot of this monster falling into the water at the very end of the movie? I'm talking about the very end of the movie when it flashes the scene at Coney Island and if you look out at the water there's a ferry. Watch to the left of it and you'll see something fall from the sky and hit the water. It is not flaming like a meteor. It looks gray and round. I'm guessing this is how the monster actually makes it's appearance? No one else seemed to notice in the theater.