Rob! Rob! Rob! Rob! Rob! Rob!

Rating: 7/10 (27 January 2008)

Oh Rob, how romantic of you to drag your closest friends across a horrifying and incredible monster battlefield all for a girl you had a one night stand with. Never mind that they all die, what's important is that you got the girl in the end, actually you got the girl killed in the end. She might have survived had you left her in the apartment but we may never know that. At least we as the audience get to see glimpses of the monster, a cross between Godzilla and a crustacean and it's little parasitic shrimp spiders as you and your friends travel through the ruins of what was Manhattan. We would have never seen the destruction, the looting, the monster, what the smaller monsters are capable of, what the military were doing about it and what the final move on the part of the military would be had the search for Beth never come about.
If you have not figured it out the love interest in the story line is a narrative device. Even now I ponder on whether or not I sympathized with the characters. That being said I still enjoyed the film because it hits the mark on issues that modern horror films especially monster films sometimes lack; this film gets straight to the point. Who cares why the monster appears? It just does and it destroys and everybody dies and that's what I want. My summary comes off a bit sarcastic but really...how many times do I have to hear Rob's name shouted before I notice I'm watching a movie?! Besides, I find it as a great redeeming factor that these yuppies all die in the end anyhow!