How to describe it? Imagine the Godzilla movie, now imagine if the film was based on the scared people running around!

Rating: 9/10 (12 November 2008)

"How to describe it? Imagine the Godzilla movie, now imagine if the film was based on the scared people running around!" Thats the only way to describe it. New York is attacked by a unidentified monster and the film focuses on a group of friends as they run around in the panic and then decide to rescue another friend.
The film starts off a little slow and the camera work is murder on the eyes and mind, but you adapt to the shakiness of the camera and just when the slow start becomes interesting as Rob Hawkins contemplates on whether he should start a relationship with a friend who he has just had sex with.....The attack happens....Panic and hysteria ensue and then we witness the head of the statue of liberty being tossed onto the New York streets.
The actors are all brilliant and capture the emotions anyone would experience when the terribly impossible happens, the director definitely knows how to bring in the audience and keeps the monster in the shadows and distance....with the characters constantly saying.
"Did you see that?"
The special effects are brilliant as the building crumble down and the fire balls scorch through the air, the monsters little bugs that wreck havoc on the people below; the only thing that made this film a little disappointing was the monster itself, it wasn't impressive like on would have imagined.