A failed experiment.

Rating: 2/10 (19 January 2008)

Cloverfield was an experiment... a failed experiment. The "monster attack" survival movie, through the eyes of a shaky hand-held camera. Imagine every scene of the military attacking Godzilla in one of his many movies, only narrated by an idiot. While photographed by somebody in a paint shaker. That's the experience we get via our cameraman/narrator in Cloverfield.
"Holy ****, they're shooting at the monster, ****!"
Yikes.
If you want a good survival horror/action film in the monster genre, check out The Host. Or hell, check out a film that did it better than Cloverfield back in 1954, Godzilla (Gojira).
If you want a camera shaking and pointing in random directions, and whiny young people on the run, as narrated by their comedic friend with a ridiculous sense of levity, check out Cloverfield.
But please don't.