It's renewing, it's impressive, it's Cloverfield

Rating: 8/10 (16 April 2008)

Even though I didn't watch the movie in the cinema, where it is at it's best, it blew me away. The style of filming with the hand held camera might take some getting used to at first but it adds so much to the experience. The special effects are mind blowing and the film fortunately doesn't destroy itself by using typical clichés like we have seen in so many other comparable movies. You have no idea what's going to happen, it just happens.
The beautiful thing about the movie is that you feel the excitement that the characters feel. It's almost as if you are in there with them. You are just as insecure every step of the way as they are. No additional information, nothing. You know what the characters know and you see what they see. Something that has never been done in the capturing way Cloverfield does it.
The fact that the film has no music only adds to the excitement. It amplifies that you are there with the characters and not in the theater or at home watching a movie.
The film however does have a downside. It's short! I wanted to see more! Why don't they make hand held camera's that work longer then 74 minutes!?
This is one of the very few movies in it's genre that I would recommend to anyone. Even if you are not fond of the genre there is simply to much to like. The movie tells a capturing story and keeps you on the tip of your seat from beginning to end. This movie is all a movie needs to be and more.