VicJameson

Just been to see this with Tess. I loved it despite it being all handy-cam footage taken by people with inner-ear infections. I don’t want to be a twat, so here is some SPOILER warning.

SPOILERS AND SHIT!

[spoiler:1zdoicaf]I really didn't give much of a fuck about the characters, and without the whole introduction to them at the start the film it would have been a bit better imo. After all, nothing else was explained at all in the film, and nor was it needed. Big fuck-off monster attacks city, people try to survive and help friends, end of story, great. Marvellous effects, added little spidery-mosters, the Chrysler Building gets flattened (This seems to happen in most New-York based action films), people bursting and the army shooting big guns, does it get any better?

Well, another 45 minutes would have been nice. It seems extraordinarily short and I was wanting more once the film reached its slightly anticlimactic end sequence. I think at that point we had just been given a lovely helicopter's eye view of the destruction and it showed me what I was missing from this film, namely, the big cinematic sequences that are the blockbuster equivalent of a money-shot.

Overall, was it worth my anticipatory priapismic spasms? Yes, it mostly was, mostly. Added glee was gained for me because I went to New-York as a child, climbed up inside the head of the Statue of Liberty, walked over the Brooklyn Bridge and sheltered under bridges in Central Park, although when I was there it wasn't as exciting at it seemed at the cinema.[/spoiler:1zdoicaf]

I score Cloverfield: Fuck Yeah/10