This movie was such a waste of time

Rating: 4/10 (28 January 2008)

I hope this isn't the new standard of movie genre. If it is, its worse than torture porn.. and I know they're working on a hand-held zombie film using this same technique. *shudder* The reality is in order for movies like this to work, the characters have to be borderline, intellectually retarded in order to validate why they would even consider getting close enough to the monsters, or whatever enemy, to make for a good film. This makes the hand-held film maker's inevitable and formulaic demise so much more anticlimactic because anyone with any common sense would not be running in the direction of a giant unknown creature dropping monster lice all over the city. This tends to ruin any sense of empathy for the character.
The guy shooting the majority of the film is, of course, a grand idiot. This is established very early on and it is the only character development in the entire film. His death is arguably the worst part of the movie because the guy has been saying the stupidest things throughout the entire movie, but right when his demise is looking him square in the face (for *far* too long, mind you), he picks this time to shut up. It was a waste of an already ridiculous set-up.
The only really good thing about this movie is that they thought about why don't the survivors just wait for the creature to pass by. The answer they came up with is man-sized, monster lice that drop off the creature and attack people. However, that doesn't stop them from making these things ridiculous because these things will make you blow up if you're bitten once. Apparently an army of aggressive, man-sized bugs with giant mandibles just isn't enough of a threat.
Its fairly obvious the people who made this film only wanted to use the technique to make a giant monster film and actually show the monster this time, instead of merely hinting at it like the Blair Witch Project did. The result is shoddy, predictable and obviously not well thought out.
Final Grade: D+