Cloverfield Review

Well, I remember sitting in the theatre about to watch Transformers and I see a trailer for a unknown movie and got me really excited. I went through all the online shenanigans that went on up till the release date of what was titled Cloverfield.

Cloverfield stars Michael Stahl-David who plays Rob Hawkins along with Jessica Lucas, Odette Yustman, Lizzy Caplan, Mike Vogel and T.J. Miller who plays the camera man throughout the movie. The main story of Cloverfield revolves around an monster attacking New York and we see the attacks through these peoples eyes (or well through the camera anyway).

I must say as the date of this movies release drew near I was becoming a little skeptical of the film. Basically become of the way it was filmed, with the shaking camera technique. Only in a couple of films have I like it like Children of Men (A movie that I loved) and I was tolerant with it with the Bourne Trilogy, but with this It worked for me. It made me feel that I was with the characters experiencing the events has you were right with them.

The actors I thought did a good job I think It was smart to cast some unknown actors it sort of adds to the realism to the film. I really like the character Hud, a lot of his remarks were great.

The look and feel, felt like something new and we haven’t seen a good creature feature in a long time and am glad to see one that’s really enjoyable. I would recommend watching Cloverfield.