Nice monster-- but the characters sucked bigtime.

Rating: 2/10 (14 June 2008)

One point for the monster
two points for the icky crab things,
And that's it.
20 minutes of 20-something yap-yapping at a party for which the viewer cares absolutely nothing
Then the shaky camera that NEVER Breaks.
And HOW can SOMEONE HOLDING A CAMERA while running for their lives amidst monsters, explosions and crashes and everything is quite beyond me.
On the other hand, we'd like to know what model and brand that camera was.
And then last, only 25 minutes into the movie, that the lead characters are total morons. I could care Less whether they live or die-- no scratch that. . . I DO care if they die. It would be a fitting punishment. The only slight saving grace is that for once it is the MALE who behaves like a whiney brainless nitwit instead of the women.
What this movie needed was a plot device that involved a stern marine corporal who takes the lead character group under his wing. . .pistol whips the nitwit lead male into a submissive stupor, GRABS the camera from the camera moron-- and pistol whip him for good measure, too. Smash the camera on the sidewalk there-upon returning the already nauseated viewer back to the sanity of servo assisted STEADI-CAM. And then to fight off the encrouching monster nasties as they pistol whip the lead characters to safety, LOCK them in and throw away the key.
And just for an evil twist, let there be a crab thing there with them.
Man. . .those twenty-something characters SUCKED!!!