Cloverfield Review…
Micahel: Yeah, I saw it.
It was… different. Different-ish. Basically, Blair Witch Project x Godzilla = Cloverfield. It wasn’t actually Godzilla, mind you.
What shocked me the most was the run time. We were there at 12:40. Watched about 10-15 minutes of previews. (Star Trek movie teaser! Weee!) And we were out of there at 2:08. I couldn’t believe it. Like an hour and 10 minutes? Hour 15 at most?
On the other hand I couldn’t have stood much more. Why? The whole movie made like it was filmed on a single video cam. So, run, run run run run bouncing shaky camera work. Take the shakest camera work you’ve seen in a clip, in say any Bourne movie… and make an ENTIRE MOVIE out of it.
There were some good elements, and the beginning worked really well. But overall, meh. I can’t recommend it other than for “different” factor. IT was a miss to me overall.
I can’t wait to see what the box office says. I know the theatre we were in, when it ended, the audience went, “Uh.” Collectively. No one was walking out talking excitedly about it.
