Just awful

Rating: 1/10 (18 December 2011)

All I can do is add to what's already been said: anyone looking for a monster movie should look elsewhere. This Cloverfield isn't, a film that I enjoyed. This is a homage to Spielberg, in particular to his films of the 80s. If you are not a fan of this cinema, you better stay away. This combines films that I watched back in the day (The Goonies, E.T., etc.) but have not seen since given that I don't care at all about them, finding them sticky, formulaic and stereotyped. I never particularly enjoyed films about life seen through the eyes of a kid, which is what a lot of Spielberg's cinema in the 80s was: I'd rather watch his films when he finally decided to address the adult audiences, notwithstanding its many problems. This is not grand or fun cinema as Abrams obviously thinks it is. Once you fail to get hooked you start noticing the startling mistakes and gaps, including the absurd train collision, the monster which you wait all film to see, the inevitable love story, the melodramatic crap about the father and his girlfriend's father, and the annoying kids. At some time I just ff over scenes between the kid and the girl and scenes between the kids so I missed a big chunk of the second half of this tremendously long, insufferable film. After reading what I missed, I definitively did myself a favor.