I couldn't stop thinking about how silly this film was

Rating: 3/10 (22 January 2008)

While the tilt-a-whirl camera style didn't make me nauseous, the fact that a friend paid for the two of us to see this film nearly did. If it wasn't for the last five minutes or so (which were wonderful to me) I would have gotten no real enjoyment out of watching Cloverfield. People walking out of the theater commented on how 'real' it felt. All I could think and say in reply was 'Oh, Please!' If this film was intended to excite, it failed in my case. It seemed ludicrous to me and had me checking my watch often. I can suspend my disbelief on the thinnest of threads, but Cloverfield turned that thread into a gnarled and tangled ball. Who in their right mind would carry, much less continue to operate, a camcorder while some gargantuan creature is tearing up the city? Danger is in X direction and safety might be in Y direction. I don't know very many twenty-something party-goers who would trot off in direction X unless they'd either had far too much to drink at the party or had just been dumped by their significant others and wanted to take a ride on the suicide express.