Be prepared for Excedrin headache #29!

Rating: 5/10 (18 January 2008)

The film is shown in a retrospective with the camera work reminiscent of the Blair Witch project. That's O.K. The premise of the initial news of some form of catastrophe in the city of New York and eventual "encounter: with the beast/alien was well done. however, some of the acting was immature, silly and adolescent at best. Not to spoil the plot, some of the behavior of the main characters was juvenile and the dialogue was 2nd grader level. We are drawn into characters that are the most naive and stupid I have watched in a movie. The characters as a whole are barely nelievable and cartoonish. When confronted with a catastrophe of this nature, normal thinking people run AWAY from the scene of ground zero, not towards it. the film's second half seems to be some type of virtual reality game. Enough said. I prognosticate this film will not do well in the box office once people find out. I will definitively will not be anticipating to buy the video. The move is entertaining in parts but misses the mark by about a few hundred meters. The camera work eventually felt as if the viewer will be having a seizure at any minute. Wheww!