Nothing's scarier than nothing
This movie has two awesome scenes :-
1) The part where the army launches missiles at the beast.
- This is one of the best part where you get to see the front view of the damned Godzilla's malnourished brother from Hell, battling all out with United State’s finest Armies. (Probably the same ones that fought the Iraq war!)
2) The part where you can see the beast from the copter view.
- This is the best part for me because you can see the view of the monster from below, moving from building to building and being fired with missiles by Stealth fighters. Also very unexpectedly, the copter got whipped by the beast (this was damn cool!) and the whole damn copter went crashing down. Well, I thought it has definitely ended there, but it didn't, which was also quite surprising!
The Good
As most of us already know, Cloverfield uses the Blair Witch video shooting style, which involves shaking the camera violently to create a realistic, amateurish effect.
Movie started off with some farewell party for an S.O.B. called Rob. There are some blend mixture of humour and seriousness in the movie, but don't expect anything great about the acting. The party was held in an apartment, high above the skies. This was perfect as the scene was able to show all the great outdoor excitement and disasters from the roof top. Obviously, this must happen at night because perfect-darknesses are for magicians, ghost seekers, robbers, monsters and aliens! I felt I’ve enjoyed it more than the highly budgeted Godzilla movie. I really regretted not watching this movie in the cinema as I would have been awed by the disaster scenes if I had seen it on a big cinema screen or a wide-screen TV. Damn it!
The Bad
There is not a great big deal about the storyline. Just watch it for fun, there's no doubt about that. There is a scene where it reminded me of Aliens, where they put on the damn night vision camera and see all those baby aliens crawling around. I kind of thought that that would happened, and it did. That's why we still need to respect Blair Witch, because I’m still not sure what they saw and why they are running like mad over nothing. Maybe nothing is much scarier than something? He he!
The Ending
All dead, which was exactly like Blair Witch, where someone also finds a camera and blah blah blah.
Overall, the movie was quite entertaining. I give it a thumb up because it didn't disappoint me, although I still cannot consider it to be great.
Therefore, it should be rated as GOOD.
Directed by Matt Reeves (The Pallbearer, Future Shock) and written by Drew Goddard (Lost, Alias (TV series)). Stars Michael Stahl-David, Odette Yustman, Mike Vogel, Jessica Lucas, Lizzy Caplan and T. J. Miller. |
