Over-rated disaster! Over-rated disaster!

Rating: 3/10 (23 April 2009)

Personally, I think that Cloverfield was a disaster. When the movie started, I thought the camera was part of the beginning, something that would go off in 1 minute or so, but no. Soon, the constant moving and shaking of the video camera began to get frustrating and stupid. It was also very unrealistic. So the city you live in gets attacked by aliens, are you really going to run around holding a video camera for around 50 minutes? Not really. Another thing was the poor acting and lack of decent action scenes. How many decent action scenes were there? I counted only one, when the soldiers and the tank begin shooting at the 'alien'. You couldn't even get a good look at the invaders. Actually, throughout the entire movie, you do not get a decent look at what the invading alien thing looks like.
As far as the technical information goes, I'm no expert, but I can easily tell that this movie was filmed wrong (in terms of style - video camera), had bad scripts with bad actors, and was just stupid and pointless all the way through. I was really disappointed, because the cover looked quite interesting, but the film failed to live up to it.
Not being harsh, just realistic.... 3 out of 10