is it!! It is truly worth every penny and second you spend in front of a giant movie screen with a bucket of popcorn.so, about this movie...the length was merely an hour and half. (short...) The picture was filmed in handy-cam style. (old trick...) The event was about monsters destroying New York city. (so did King Kong and Godzilla...) The plot is... absent! (what?!) That's right! No character development or anything beyonds "people try to run away from monsters".
As crazy as it sounds, this movie created a whole new level of "theater experience"! Let me try it with metaphor - if previous monster movies were music CD records, Cloverfield was a celebration of a live concert!
So you are easily scared? No worries, this movie is done with class and dignity. Nothing is meant to scare you with horror, startle you with sudden setups, or disgust you with unnecessary bloody meat on bones. Na'uh, relax! I am a big chicken-shit with horror movies, and I enjoyed the thrill from the start of the action until the very last second of this movie, literally!
After the movie was finished, I had to sit there to catch up with my breath first, and then walked out with a very complex expression on my face. It was the half overly-excited and half stupid laughing face I usually got after a big roller coaster ride.
I recommend this movie to everybody. However, for people who have weak semicircular canals, many have reported puking and dizziness just 20min into this movie. So, be prepared, take a motion-sickness pill and then watch it!
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