The first 5 stars movie for 2008!

Cloverfield - 5/5 stars !!!

Dir: Matt Reeves (prev work - Felicity (drama)

This monster movie totally puts I am Legend to shame, luckily they came up b4 this marvellous piece of genius work by the talent wonderkid J J Abrams (creator of Lost, Alias and dir of M I 3).

After minimal opening credits, we are informed by text on the screen that what we are watching is footage from a videocam "retrieved at an incident site formerly known as Central Park." Watching it, we discover that a going-away party for a man, Rob (he's transferring to Japan) is interrupted by an earth-rumbling, fiery disturbance down at the waterfront – and shortly after that, all hell breaks loose. The monster – as well as skittery, spider/crab like parasites that drop from its body – attack, stomp and/or chew on anything that moves – while our heroes set off to rescue a friend trapped in her high-rise apartment.

Actually you shouldn't even be reading this, the more you know about this movie, the less better it will be. This is a one of the most original concept and idea ever for a monster , end of the world movie. Everything begin slow and thus creating the suspense. The audience is getting impatient! we jus want to see the monster. But the director try to hook ur attention by not revealing anythin to you. He slowly revealed to you pieces and pieces and god damn i had not been hooked throughout an entire movie for dunno since when!

The tension is great cause we are experiencing what the protaganists are experiencing. Many people might be affected by the shaky cameras but I feel the overall idea overshadow other mistakes and goofs of the movie. Just go to see this movie b4 the whole town talk about it soon!

But for one thing I had to say, the camera is really amazing, it never seems to run out of battery, and it had the light mode for all sort of situation, night vision, adolsecent etc. And Hud the camera operator who at the start of the movie say he hardly knows how to operater the camera, seems to do a pretty good job making a movie out of his video debut.