Cloverfield

This movie really isn't very good. The shaky-cam conceit is annoying, the plot makes no sense, and it's incredibly difficult to care about any of the self-centered yuppies that the movie revolves around. Sadly, it was the center of so much Geek Anticipation prior to it's release that nobody dared say anything bad about it. Still, the fact remains that I've yet to meet a single person that wanted to see this thing a second time.

The story is simple, silly even, but the stuff that comes together to make this film is truly ingenious. Yes its hard to watch, for various reasons, and its not necessarily uplifting and it may loose your interest along the way...and its mainly for monster movie fans...BUT...the creative efforts do pay off in the form of exciting and innovative film making. The extras that come with the DVD are great and explain how the film makers took the best advantage of their resources including the secrecy during the film making process and how they produced excellent realistic visual effects. This shows how well visual effects can be blended with the story telling, despite the sparse story. See it if you're a monster fan or visual effects geek.

A friend lent this to me, as I missed it in the theater. I liked it so much I bought it. You see just enough of the creature to get a good fright but also not enough to keep you mystified. I highly recommend you watch this movie with surround sound.

Please don't pay attention to the "it's too jerky!" claims; it's not even close to being as bad as others make it out to be. The special effects are fantastic and the story is great. I loved the 1st person viewpoint, but I do have to admit that Hud did get on my nerves a little bit.

The other nice thing about this movie is that it's PG-13 scary; very little bad language and not a whole lot of gore. It's something you can watch with your teenagers and not worry about rivers of blood or every other word being profane. It's nothing like that at all.

Without giving the ending away, others (including my wife) think it leaves too many questions unanswered. I simply took it for what is was - a very different spin on a Monster-in-New-York movie - and loved it.

If I could give this a half star I would. Boring...! And of course, violent. It took too long to get to the point, whatever that was...!

Pour les acheteurs français qui aiment le frisson ce blu ray est incontournable. Le film est très bon (je ne vais pas m'étendre sur le sujet car vous trouverez beaucoup de commentaires) et côté technique il réussit à conjuguer des prises de vue caméra à l'épaule et une belle définition.
Enfin, la bande son canadienne est bonne, seuls quelques prénoms américains sont prononcés... à l'américaine. Donc si vous pouvez supporter d'entendre "wrob, wrob, wrob..." dans le feu de l'action (le héros se prénomme Rob) tout va bien.
A ne pas manquer.