Kai, The Informologist

Close to last scene of Cloverfield.

Yes, I have seen the movie (sort of).

Deeply anticipated by anyone who caught ‘Transformer‘ in theater.
Thanks to the seconds long trailer with the head of the Statue of Liberty flying across the sky and landed miles into Manhattan.
No more details were revealed, even casting members were not shown to the original script. It’s a mystery all around.

That is until 1-18-08.
That anticipation bloated and exploded as scenes after scenes of clips from Rob’s hand-held video camera introduced, filled, and sort of concluded.

Why 3/4 then? Well, even though I was 3 rows from the back, prime spot for movie watching, I was having motion sickness 50 minutes or so into the movie. Was probably the first man out of my seat, with many others followed. I had to, it was like a big bang on my head and a punch on my stomach. My friend relate the experience as having to ride a roller-coaster ride ten times over. Probably true.

That aside, it was a movie with non-stop action (except for the times that you would close your eyes to adjust your focus). The introduction was deemed necessary on many accounts, especially as the movie was attempting to be placed as close to realism as possible. The story, we follows ‘Hud’, the camera man journeyed through Manhattan in searching and rescuing ‘Beth’, the love of ‘Rob’. We watches through the camera as the story progresses, we witnesses horrors as if it were real, we felt defeat as if hope wasn’t possible, we also watches determination although the fruit was the exchange of ‘I Love You’s as the movie draws to an end.

It has probably lived up to its hype, only if you are comfortable with viewing it without feeling sick. It’s like a challenge of some sort (like a roller coaster ride?), and like I said, I failed and had to leave.

Rotten Tomatoes gave it a 77%, with most of the critics loving the innovation, and the rest detesting the shaky experience. With the trailer not lined up entirely to the chronological order of the story, you should give it a chance, a try, and relate to all the hypes yourself.