Cloverfield - I'm still reeling over how amazing it is!

Rating: Null/10 (5 February 2008)

Well, first of all, I went into see the film today already pretty excited due to all of the hype surrounding it, and watching the amazing trailer. Although, friends had said it was 'rubbish', but after I've seen the film myself, I couldn't disagree more! So, the beginning is a little slow, it's basically just setting the scene, making the whole thing seem realistic and introducing us to a few of the main characters; pretty boring if you ask me. But, - and excuse my bad grammar - as soon as the statue of liberties head comes crashing down to the streets of Manhattan, you get the eerie similarity between the events of September the 11th, and god, it's so realistic I felt like I was actually there. The whole film is so excellently clever, every aspect of it is completely amazing to me, but then again, I do study media so I know what to look for. So, this leads me onto a negative side to the film of Cloverfield.
For anyone who enjoys your run of the mill 'Hollywood' genre type film, where it depicts a story, and you get a beginning, middle and end; I pretty much guarantee you won't enjoy Cloverfield at all. There is no explanation as to where the monster came from, what it is, and what happened to anyone after the film or what even happened to Manhattan after the film. Instead, we are just given an insight into what would happen if a monster would attack such a major city as America, and not one part of it makes you think 'well that wouldn't happen like that'. Some bits, however, are a little strange; like the shameless endorsement of Nokia phones; or even when they tried the lifts as though you would take them up a toppling building anyway...
This film is something original, exciting, and not guaranteed to be everyone's cup of tea, but one thing is for sure; if you find the film industry to be very tiresome and boring nowadays, Cloverfield might just awaken your desire for modern film. I just hope to god no one tries making a film similar to it, or a 'part 2' is made just to explain what happened in the first one, like what they did to the poor 'Blair witch project'.