Nothing Original in yet another Shaky-Cam bad movie

Rating: 2/10 (17 January 2008)

J.J. Abrams is part of that generation of TV producers that thrive on empty hype. After all, he is the "brain" behind the empty fashion show that was Alias.
So it's no wonder that this time he has embraced that scourge of good film-making: the shaky-cam.
What's really mind-boggling is that he's trying to pass that bad gimmick as something original.
It's not original. It's been done before. A hundred times at least. And guess what? It doesn't work. It never worked. Every single pseudo-documentary I have ever seen completely failed because of the "pseudo" part. You have to try so hard to give a fake sense of documentary that your whole movie reeks of Fake.
J.J. Abrams' movie is exactly like that, except with intentionally bad camera-work.
That Hollywood thinks J.J. Abrams has the slightest talent and made a film like Cloverfield may be the best indictment of current Hollywood.