Sitting down to watch Cloverfield is rather confusing. One knows next to nothing about the film before popping it in the DVD player (the description / synopsis on the box is a one liner: From visionary producer J.J. Abrams (Lost) and director Matt Reeves comes the worldwide sensation of nonstop terror and suspense everyone is talking about). It becomes apparent that what I was watching was a monster movie that has been shot Blair Witch style with hand-held camera work that has been designed to mimic a camcorder kept on throughout the action (albeit a 35mm camera that has been used to mimic a hand-held camcorder).

The cleverness and choreography of some of the shots is undeniable, but I still ended up disappointed by Cloverfield. The Blair Witch Project influence is more than clear on Cloverfield - there's even an identical scene with the hero making a tearful goodbye to the camera at the end. Indeed outside of the camera work, all that Cloverfield seems to do is wheel out the cliches of the monster movie - mass destruction, evacuations of the populace, drastic military solutions, the protagonists racing against a deadline, creatures pursuing people in dark places, infection and mutation. Take away all the hype and all that we would have would really be (at least on a plot level) an unexceptional monster movie that never bothers to explain anything at all about its menace.

This flick truly sucked!!!

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