This forum needs a review. There's a few light unimportant spoilers in the second paragraphe, and a significant spoiler in the last paragraphe. But otherwise, anybody can read it.
Just be careful in the last paragraphe.
This film does two things; its filmed with a hand-held digital camera, and two, nothing is explained about the monster. So if you can deal with those two facts, you will be able to enjoy the film for what it is, because it works, it deliver. Those who didnt enjoyed the movie didnt because of those two facts.
There's two or three cringe-worthy corny moments, like when they "agree" about going after Beth despite the idea being pure insane nonesense; any sane persone would have ditched Rob for the crazy loser he is. Also, when they arrive at the broken appartment-tower: Beth was probably dead by now, but her appartment is ****ing about to fall. Going to fetch her all the way to the top was just loving insane.
But there's also plenty of action, military vs the monster battles, death and gore and suspense. There's also some pretty badass scenes involving fighter planes.
I loved how the monster seemed to be hunted down, frightened and lost, it added a lot of realism to the beast. You never actualy see it fight agressivly; it just stumble about, being pissed and bombed.
How it could survived that much firepower is never explained, its almost supernatural. It doesnt have a shell or armored skin. But I guess thats necessary.
While it is never said the creature comes from space, at the end of the movie, when the tape switch to the beach scene, look carefully; you can see something fall into the sea, at the right of the screen. During the viral marketing campaign, Tagruato, the compagny that manifacture "Slusho", is said to have been tracking a "satellite" that feel into the Atlantic Ocean.
Slusho - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Cloverfield incarnation of Slusho! is a subsidary of Tagruato, a fictional Japanese drilling company. Its role may be foreshadowed, if not given away entirely, in the history of the drink on the Slusho! official website. Here it is revealed that Slusho! contains an ingredient "discovered on the deep ocean floor, under amazing pressure and in the most extreme cold."[1]
And finaly, here's an animated gif from the monster for those too curious, taken at the end of the movie, before
. The quality is bad because its a digital camera shot from a movie filmed with a small digital camera, plus in that scene, the monster breath into the lense, so its rather fuzy. Also, it doesnt really move that fast, its just a crappy gif.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/ ... 569259.gif
