Friday, 25 December 2015

A monster in New York

Cloverfield (2008)

Directed by Matt Reeves this film stars Michael Stahl-David, Odette Yustman, T. J. Miller, Jessica Lucas and Lizzy Caplan. Attractive 20-somethings try to escape New York during a monster attack.

Thanks to being presented as a special effects film this is essentially a special effects film with bad camera work which is kind of a bad idea in my opinion. Both the characters and the plot have no depth which is a shame for a film made when New York under attack was still a very raw and topical subject. I found that all this film succeeded in doing was giving me a head ache thanks to the shaky and often unintelligible camera work.


2/5

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