Thanks to a co-worker, I got to see the DVD version of this movie which came out early this year, about a monster attack on NYC
With a cast of unknowns, Cloverfield documents a monster attack on NYC. The central conceit of the movie is that everything is seen through the videocamera that one of the characters, Hud, employs throughout the film.
What this means is the movie is an exercise in "shaky-cam" style, but at the very least there is a justification for it. I could probably not have watched this movie in a theater without getting nauseous; on the small screen the shaky-cam style was more palatable.
As far as the movie itself, the movie does all right. I appreciated the New York milieu (although their sense of geography is very compressed). While the characters do act stupid in some situations, those actions do seem to flow from understandable choices. The young unknown actors do okay in their roles, but nothing spectacular. The material they are given is middling.
The movie doesn't try to explain everything, and I think that obfuscation works for this movie. It's a moderately entertaining movie, which, being short, doesn't outstay its welcome.
Posted by Jvstin at June 17, 2008 5:40 PM