Cloverfield
While currently dropping to fourth in this weekend’s rating estimates, we saw this movie in a jam-packed theater on Saturday night. It was a young and enthusiastic crowd that was clearly there for the monters and gore. And, for that, the movie certainly delivered. The film is viewed through one camera that is passed along from one character to the next at various points. I enjoyed the home-video feel, which for me, added to the fresh and modern take to the standard monster/alien movie. Where Blair Witch was a back-woodsy witch movie, this was all about four young urban professionals making their way through the rubble that used to be Manhattan. And, luckily for us, the video camera holder must have a monster attracting fragrance oozing from his pores. This monster has all of Manhattan to roam, yet, no matter where our four little documenters roam…there it is.
It gets off to a very slow start, but, the viewer is eventually rewarded with plenty of mayhem and destruction. All of which, to me at least, make this movie well worth the price of admission.
