terrible

Rating: 7/10 (20 September 2011)

I hated this movie,it's way overrated. Don't get me wrong the acting was pretty good, and it didn't take to long for the action pack scenes to start either. The story plot was pretty good too. Giant monster bug takes over Manhattan and no one knows where it came from. Not bad at all! It also wasn't the fact that the movie was taken at a 'POV' hand held camera angle, since I'm used to those types of movies.I actually love those types of movies, Quarintine and Blair Witch Project being good examples. The problem with this movie is that it's BORING. Even though there are a lot of action/attacks scenes it was still boring. It did hold my attention for the first 40-50 minutes, but then I realized how boring this was. The characters themselves were bland with no personalities, they weren't likable, nor interesting. So that itself made me instantly hate this movie. If I don't care about the characters then the movie will be a waste. To make things worse the characters are stupid. For example Rob Hawkins(whose name I had to look up since he was so boring I forgot), makes it his mission to find some girl whose his girlfriend or sister (I really don't know), whose in trouble at her house. Even though there is a giant 100-200 foot monster attacking the city along with thousands of baby monsters running around, he goes out of his way to try and rescue her. His friends don't want to leave him alone so they decide to go as a group through the DARK subway tunnels. You may think he is brave and a so called hero but in my eyes he's dense, and so are the other characters even thought they tried to talk him out of it. The smart thing would have been to tell a trained soldier about his sister or girlfriend about her being in trouble! They would have got to her sooner and no one would have been killed or hurt. Oh did I mention that there were hundreds of soldiers in the streets trying to guide everyone to safety? But no that wasn't good enough, the group had to recuse the girl themselves. Silly me, of course we can't have a movie without dumb characters! The characters aren't the only thing that got on my nerves, it was also the cheap cgi effects. Not only did the monster look fake but it looked like something out of a video game. For a movie that had a pretty high budget you'd think you get decent effects. And if you can't get decent effects then don't show the monster so much! Leave it to the audience's' imagination, it's scarier that way. I'm sorry but I just couldn't take this 'film' seriously. Please leave the filming to the pros.