Exciting, tremendous and splendid!

Rating: 10/10 (22 February 2008)

Cloverfield is one of the best movies of all time. I say this with my hand on my heart. I have seen plenty of movies, both in cinemas and on television and I can, without thinking twice, maintain that this "monster-of-a-movie" was phenomenal in every aspect. Before this movie, I did not have a horror/monster movie on my top 5 list (which by the way includes film such as "The Godfather Trilogy, Dollar Trilogy, One Flew over The Cuckoo's Nest and Scarface). After watching Cloverfield, however, I must admit that this movie is among my top 5 films. Cloverfield stunned me; it was something new, something that none of us have seen before. This, together with the outstanding performance of the actors involved, makes this movie a real roller-coaster, filled with thrills, goose bumps, emotions and excitement.
Conclusively, I must admit that its various dimensions make it a excellent movie in nearly all corners due to the perfect choice of characters, setting and plot.
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One very pleasing thing about this movie is that the "monster" is rather "anonymous". Why? Well, first of all, we have already seen films where an "experiment has gone wrong" or some kind of "mutation" has affected the creation or development of a creature. Cloverfield breaks this trend by not telling us anything specific about the monster. Secondly, we can ask ourselves what WE do if we were placed in the same situation as the characters in the movie? We would certainly not do any kind of research to find out how the monster was put on this planet. We would run and try to save our asses. These things make the movie even better.
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