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2008, USA

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Genres:

Action | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Actors:

T.J. Miller		Hud
Michael Stahl-David		Rob Hawkins
Mike Vogel		Jason Hawkins
Anjul Nigam		Bodega Cashier
Theo Rossi		Antonio
Brian Klugman		Charlie
Kelvin Yu		Clark
Ben Feldman		Travis
Will Greenberg		Party Goer
Rob Kerkovich		Party Goer
Ryan Key		Party Goer
Hooman Khalili		Party Goer
Baron Vaughn		Party Goer
Rick Overton		Frantic Man
Martin Cohen		Burly Guy

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Certification:

Sweden:15 | Japan:PG-12 | New Zealand:M | France:U | Hong Kong:IIA ... show all

IMDB Rating:

7.60 out of 10 (98258 votes)

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Taglines:	1: Some Thing Has Found Us
Plot Summary:	Cloverfield follows five New Yorkers from the perspective of a hand-held video camera. The movie is exactly the length of a DV Tape and a sub-plot is established by showing bits and pieces of video previously recorded on the tape that is being recorded over. The movie starts as a monster of unknown origin destroys a building. As they go to investigate, parts of the building and the head of the Statue of Liberty come raining down. The movie follows their adventure trying to escape and save a friend, a love interest of the main character.
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Cloverfield movie review

posted on 16 May 2008

No matter what you think about his actual body of work, producer/writer/director J.J. Abrams (he of “Alias,” “Lost” and “Mission: Impossible III”) knows how to draw attention to a project.

Just as Lost gets plenty of off-season marketing mojo from online alternate reality games and podcasts, the Abrams-produced feature film Cloverfield has been hyped for the past six months via an intensive viral marketing campaign involving “leaked” footage and conceptual art, as well as tie-in websites that offer intriguing clues as to the plot of the movie. Abrams knows that his target demographic is ‘net savvy and game crazy, and the ad men who handled the pre-release campaign for Cloverfield have liberally sprinkled the Webverse with plenty of shiny Easter eggs to pique their interest.

Ultimately, however, it comes down to the question of whether Cloverfield is actually any good. And it is – maybe not good enough to deserve the massive amount of manufactured interest generated prior to release, but it’s still pretty darn nifty.

The movie’s main conceit is a more sophisticated take on the gag that drove The Blair Witch Project with one of the film’s characters, Hud (T.J. Miller) shooting all of the events with a camcorder after cataclysmic events disrupt a going-away party for his pal Rob (Michael Stahl-David). In a way, the gimmick is the only thing that sets Cloverfield apart from other giant-monster horror flicks, but it’s clever enough that it works very, very well – it creates intimacy and immediacy, delivering a visceral “you are there” feeling that grabs the viewer in a way that a more conventional, dispassionate style of filming wouldn’t achieve.

That’s important, because Cloverfield really isn’t about the mystery behemoth that rampages through Manhattan, it’s about the people on the ground who are desperately trying not to become monster chow. Director Matt Reeves’ background includes writing and directing Abrams’ soapy TV drama “Felicity,” and that experience colors much of Cloverfield – the first 20 minutes of the film (which runs less than 80 minutes total) are devoted to the personalities of the very photogenic, financially gifted characters as they flirt, bicker and gossip at Rob’s party, so that when all hell breaks loose it’s as if Felicity and her pals were suddenly dropped into the middle of a Godzilla flick. It’s weird, but engagingly so.

It’s not without its flaws, though. Some of those photogenic characters are so similar in appearance and personality that even after 20 minutes of party chatter it’s hard to tell them apart. And while the first-person narrative makes for an exciting thrill ride, decades of monster-movie history have instilled in the audience a desire to know just what, exactly, this thing is that everyone’s running away from – there are lots of hints on the related Internet sites, but the movie itself offers nothing at all to explain its origins.

The CG creatures, explosions and other effects are seamless, however (although it’s worth noting that the shaky, handheld camera has been reported to make more than a few viewers queasy.) From a cinematic and a marketing standpoint, ""Cloverfield’s"] a successful exercise – but, really, it’s little more than that. It’s a lot of fun, but Godzilla’s crown as King of the Monsters is still safe.