Cloverfield: Review By Ron23

Jan 18th, 2008 by Ron23
A waist of 90 min.
  • OVERALL
    1.5
    POOR
  • Story
  • Acting
  • Directing
  • Visuals
Where to start with this god forsaken movie. Me and a whole movie theater of people would agree that this "movie" was a very big waist of time and not worth all of the hype it had around it. Talk about being deceived into believing this was going to be a great experience, I went to the midnight showing of this movie and it was packed! Everyone couldn't wait to get inside and watch this movie, nobody was even in line for popcorn or anything they all just ran to their seats, then it started...(90 min. later...)

when the last scene ended ant the lights turned on all u heard was "Are you F***ing kidding me!" everyone was furious,

(spoilers ahead for all the lucky ones who haven't scene it yet)

And we all had good reasons for being so pissed, cause no questions were answered!! it was just like a extended episode of lost that had you guessing till the end, and still guessing afterward.

here are the reasons for why this so called "movie" was such a kick in the balls.

1)WHY THE HELL IS IT CALLED CLOVERFIELD!!! they never said or had a reason for it.

2)Almost the whole F**kin movie was filmed by some guy that liked this chick and tried to start conversations with her, and never films anything important, just quick seconds of the monster or other things that were important.

3)There was no reason why this monster was there or attacking the city. You never see the whole thing at once, just parts and quick glances, the best scene to see it was at the end when it ate the camera guy

4) why did that girl the camera guy liked blow up? I guess if you get bitten from one of those starship trooper lookin bugs your insides blow up?

Id like an answer to that

5)What happened to that hot chick that got into the first helicopter? she was gone after that.

6)did the monster die? it doesnt show that it did, you hear the monster and the army fighting it, and during the fight the last 2 survivors die from a bomb going off from the army, then its over

7)And the camera never got destroyed! that was the best camera out there. it lasted through all that abuse and it had almost every feature you can think of, with the longest battery life ever.

8)towards the end when the helicopter crashed the 3 people were still alive, and it crashed into the ground usually stuff like that blows up, and they all walked away from it.

9)the ending sucked. plain and simple, i guess you can see something fall into the ocean on the last scene of the whole movie but i didnt see it.

all in all there were some cool scenes, and good visual effects with good actors. Such a cool idea gone wrong because of JJ Abrams.

If anyone has any real answers to any of these please feel free to tell me. thanks.

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Comments (5)

  1. PUREVIL

    Dude all I got to say is that this is no Godzilla movie. It's called suspense, questioning, and fearing what you don't know.

    4 years agoby @kintaro88Flag

  2. G5Manon

    OK i am going to just say this not trying to throw around hate but if you would pay attention to the movie you would have all the answers to your question. 1. The name comes from the military operation and we all know military operations don't always make sense Example ( We dropped the bomb called Little boy, which was not in fact a little boy) 2. Yeah i will admit that the love thing with HUD was kinda dumb but you have to have someway to relate to the characters 3. As for never getting a good view of it what idiot would stand and just film a giant monster attacking them personally i would get the F@ck out of there 4. Its a doc*mentary once again, we might never no why people blew up and personally it doesn't both me it just adds to the OOOOO to the movie like WTF OMG!!!! 5. Now i must reiterate the fact that we were following the cameras perspective so when the hot chick left she was out of sight out of mind 6. Good question but supposedly at the end of the credits you can hear the monster roar 7. The fact that the camera survived the bombing it is pretty amazing but the fact that the power supply lasted that long only makes sense bc the movie run time is only 90 minutes, but u will say G5Manon they say the movie was supposed to last 7 hours, yes it does cover 7 hours but they do not record during those hours 8.Not everyone walked away from it, i mean there were two dead pilots in the front just bc they crashed doesn't mean there was huge bang 9. yes i agree with you on this i didn't see crap at the end and when i heard about it i was like :(

    4 years agoby @g5manonFlag

  3. bookworm_382

    Apparently during the final scene when Rob and Beth were at Coney Island the month before something fell from space into the water. I did not catch this but I heard about it later on the internet.

    4 years agoby @bookworm-382Flag

  4. Guts-Fearless

    Ok buddy...listen...like the guy below me said, it was filmed from one group of people's point of view...not the military's, not the scientist's, not "monster-tologists" so it's kinda your fault you didn't like the movie 'cause you went in thinking "Ok, I'm gonna get all the answers about what this monster is" no, if you would've paid any f*cking attention to the dozens of trailers you would have seen that it was filmed from normal people's perspective...and guess what, Rob even says they don't know what the f*cking monster is...and the military didn't know what it was either...leading me to believe that NO ONE ON F*CKING EARTH KNEW WHAT THE MONSTER WAS. Did you expect someone to walk in front of the people filming and go "oh, I've seen that monster at the beach in Florida...it was a magnificent specimen" you're a f*cking IDIOT. Please, do yourself a favor, delete your movieweb account and never review a f*cking movie you dick. F*ck you

    4 years agoby @guts-fearlessFlag

  5. Fuzion

    alright. i signed up to this site just to tell you that you're a f*cking moron.

    IT WAS FILMED AS A DOC*MENTARY, YOU F*CKING TOOL. YOU GET THE STORY FROM THOSE PEOPLES' POINT OF VIEW, THUS YOU'RE NOT GOING TO HAVE EVERYTHING EXPLAINED TO YOU. YOU ONLY KNOW WHAT THEY KNOW.

    Cloverfield is the name of the military operation to stop the monster, dumbass. also, if you did two seconds of research, you'd find that the name Cloverfield comes from the name of a street near Bad Robot productions' main office.

    i could go on debunking the rest of your idiotic views, but it's not worth any more of my time.

    have a good one, retard.

    4 years agoby @fuzionFlag