very tedious and not worth the effort to watch it

Rating: 3/10 (2 May 2008)

Although the use of the hand-held camera is annoying, the real problem with it is that it becomes the focal point of the whole movie and so the drama is lost in the technique. The characters are uninteresting, if not annoying in their own right, and that creates two more problems. First, you don't care about them or what they are doing; and second, they fill up most of the movie time and the purposeful glimpses of the monsters and other special effects/action moments are very limited. I kept watching the clock timer on the DVD to see when the movie would end. Those who are hoping for a Godzilla in New York kind of movie will find only the hint of it in this effort.