It does the trick. Big time.

Rating: 8/10 (24 January 2008)

Just a little note on the "Shaky camera comments". In this movie YOU are on the run with these people. Not like in for instance Godzilla, where you are in your seat watching the movie. You are running, you are scared and you are liking/disliking people you are with. Thanx to the cam moving around you all the time it feels like you are with those people. I think Abrams did a good job NOT to make this yet another US boring CGI movie. This is different. This is the real thing. Could almost be European! OK, so don't choose the first 5 or 6 rows in your theater... I agree to that! But surely this is a movie to be seen on the big screen, with those nasty scary sounds putting chills on your back!