Cloverfield…Not a Four Leaf Cloverfield

Yeah. It’s bad. So if you want to stop reading I will completely understand, and there will be no hurt feelings. The movie is sort of like the 21st Century version of the Blair Witch Project. If you get nausea very easily then you might not want to watch this movie.  The movie takes place in the “former” Central Park in the great NYC.  It is really quite unreal the whole movie. The movie suffers from Abrams inability to let people die. I mean people die, people die you don’t think are going to die. The normal Sci-Fi doesn’t show images of things that say  ”Dam, you gotta be dead you’ve had a piece of rebar stuck through you heat” then not only is she alive, but she can manage to spit the distance of the city, and not be in any pain. If that didn’t happen I think that this movie could have gotten easily an 80% good rating, perhaps loosing points for lack of originality, and poor audio. The later is a complaint that is new to me. I have never had trouble hearing and understanding people in film, but this film. I had to stop go back and re-listen at least three times because it is so muttered. Perhaps, this supposed to be a part of the aesthetic of the movie. I didn’t work for me. Cloverfield aside from a few flaws is basically a good film, it is with out a doubt a huge step over the Blair Witch Project which I found tedious.

 

Overal Score: 3.5 out of 5