Cloverfield Movie Review

When I saw the trailers for Cloverfield, I thought, "That looks like an awesome movie to go and see." After seeing the movie I was majority disappointed.

The first twenty minutes or so of the movie is a home video of Rob's going away party. You watch as the party goes on and the party-goers give their “testimonials". If you get motion sickness you better leave now because the screen bouncing up and down only gets worse as the movie goes on.

After the first twenty minutes of the movie, the monster begins to attack the city and the real action begins. You watch (if your not too sick by now) as Rob and a small group of his friends run around the city. First they try to flee the city by crossing the Brooklyn Bridge, which gets destroyed by the monster. Then they run back across the city in an effort to save Rob's "girlfriend". There’s a lot of running around and screaming but not much else.

When they finally reach Beth's (Rob's "girlfriend") apartment, they find her impaled and half dead. Unimpaled her, (which in the real world would kill her), the group helps her along as the head back down the apartment building and back out into the street. They mange to meet up with the military (which has been waging war against the monster throughout the movie) and are told that the military is evacuating people and if the can reach the helicopter in time they can be evacuated to.

So there’s more running and screaming as they race toward where they military is evacuating people. Once they get there, they are loaded up in a helicopter and it looks like they are going to make it out of the city. But, big surprise, the monster attacks their copter and they go crashing into central park. This leads to one of the characters being eaten by the monster.

Rob and Beth are the only two survivors but not for long. They run and hide under a small bridge in central park and say there good byes as New York City is nuked.

For me this "wanna be" Godzilla movie leaves a lot of questions unanswered. Like: How did the camera's battery last so long? What was the monster? Why was it attacking New York City? Why does EVERYTHING attack the Big Apple? Did nuking it kill the monster? A lot of unanswered questions and one very dissatisfied movie goer.

Clovefield gets a big thumbs down from me and only gets a 4/10. There were some decent moments in the film but it wasn't worth the twenty bucks to see it.