Rating of
2.5/4
A Monster Headache
BryanFury - wrote on 02/02/08
It started off weak and ended much weaker. I really did not see the significance of using a single cameraman’s perspective of the whole New York City chaos. Having the front row seats to all that mayhem maybe scary for those actors but sadly it didn’t worked for me. It just felt a little old and the whole thing kind of looses steam from all of the running and the bad camera work. Having seen the best documentary/movie “The Blair Witch Project” means anything that is not as good or even better is going to be considered less or rather worse even. So that's pretty much it, Cloverfield is not as good as everyone thought it was. There are a few good points like the fact that everybody dies and the monster, creature or whatever it was did not. Which is probably reason enough to see it at least once in your lifetime. And one last thing I’d like to mention is the fact that they should have died when the helicopter crashes but then of course the writers thought they must live a little more to be smashed up by giant rocks (sweet).
