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Five young New Yorkers throw their friend a going-away party the night that a monster the size of a skyscraper descends upon the city. Told from the point of view of their video camera, the film is a document of their attempt to survive the most surreal, horrifying event of their lives.
| ”Revolves around an attack in New York as told from the point of view of a small group of people.” |
| Director: | Matt Reeves |
| Writers: | Drew Goddard |
| Cast: | Michael Stahl-David Jessica Lucas Lizzy Caplan T.J. Miller Mike Vogel Odette Yustman |
| Release Date: | January 18th, 2008 (Wide) |
| Genres: | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller |
| Rating: | PG-13 for violence |
| Running Time: | 1 hr 24 min |
| Distributors: | Paramount Pictures |
General
Cloverfield seen through the hand-held cameras effect completely immerses you in the incredible and realistic situation with absolutely no knowledge to comfort you.
There are two obvious groups criticizing this movie, Very nice and Very bad.
One of the reason people was disturbed by this movie seems because of its shaking hand-held camera effect. Warning! You may get motion sickness.
If you have motion sickness, I suggest you never ever sit in front row. You will have to pause watching the movie every second. Manage to get a seat further from the screen. A lot of people around me in the cinema couldn’t even watch the screen at times. So no sit at the back? Get a ticket for next session.
Besides, these realistic and brilliant visual effects, there are many funny parts as well. Thanks to the cameraman. “Oh My God, you know Superman too? Geez I’m feeling a connection… have you heard of Garfield?”. Well… Funny 
Picture
The presentation is brilliant the hand-held camera made the effects look great and realistic. But as I said, be warned about motions sickness.
The film is an amazingly visceral experience. It absolutely feels like you are experiencing this with the characters, who feel more or less exactly like real people. It’s very disorienting you never figure out what is going on but you’re so into survival that you put it past you.
Cloverfield delivers visceral pleasure.
Sound
Many thrilling sound effects wow people. Also it really feel like you are standing next to the soldiers shooting at the monster. You may not find a great orchestra symphony in this movie, but enough to make you feeling beside the characters.
Action
The acting is not bad, but we can barely find real insight on the characters themselves. But it’s true that they might have no time to enjoy crying or whatsoever in that tense situation.
Overall
Cloverfield is quite brilliant movie immersing people into the screen. However many people criticize that this movie can be summarized as “The Blair Witch Experience”
It was a relatively unique experience, and again I want to applaud the decision to make it in that manner.
But the title… I’m quite wondering what Cloverfield have to do with it.
Anyhow, Action/Thriller fans will love it!
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