Movie reviews: Cloverfield

by Darren Humphries

CLOVERFIELD is the largest budgeted home movie ever made. That's the idea anyway. Following on the idea of THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT but adding $25 million to the pot, it tells the supposed story of a group of friends whose ...read more

by Mary Anne

My expectations for this movie were pretty low. I didn't really think I would like it, but I couldn't WAIT to see it. I was very surprised when I loved it. In many ways, this movie reminds me of M. Night Shyamalan's...read more

by Robert Gannon

When Rob Hawkins is surprised by a going away party with all his friends, he views it as a sign that his upcoming move to Japan is the right decision. And then everyone hears the explosion. The lives of everyone in NYC a...read more

by Movie Pulse

Cloverfield is more than a movie; it is an experience that will leave you completely and utterly exhausted. A poignant blend of post 9/11 terror and our cultural obsessions with mass media and technology, Cloverfield is a ...read more

by Eric Hansen

"Cloverfield" is a film with decent intentions that apparently forgot to consider a few things during production: 1. Storyline, 2. Character development, 3. Whether people might be eating during the film, and 4. Special ef...read more

by Stephen Carter

'Cloverfield' (2008) is an extended pursuit scene turned into a movie, but that isn't necessarily a limiting factor. A well-executed pursuit scene is the purest of cinematic conventions: characters respond to a continuing,...read more

by Keith Covington

Cloverfield is a modern day case of being bamboozled. The initial hype of the teaser trailer for the movie that accompanied "Transformers" was justified. Nothing was more important than "What is that thing?". For months...read more

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by Jared Brunk

Caution: A few spoilers and explainers to those who haven't seen this yet. The first ten minutes, and sporadically from there, are professionally filmed to give the viewer the appeal that a true amateur is at the helm o...read more

by Spencer Hawken

It all started about 6 months ago, the big summer movie of 2007 was Transformers but unbeknown to anyone about to attend cinema screenings something bigger was on its way and that would be tested in the trailers that accom...read more

by Steven Voight

Welcome to my review of Cloverfield, one of the most hyped up movies of 2008 thanks to a wonderful marketing campaign and Internet buzz. One of the few times in present time where secrets were able to be kept almost until...read more

by MC Williams

Cloverfield is a movie I knew nothing about before I sat down to watch it. I heard no reviews and I knew no one that actually saw the movie. Which, I think, made my experience that much better. Drew Goddard wrote the s...read more

by Sarah Huth

It was easy to brush "Cloverfield" off as just another big budget, overly hyped up film. The hand held look had been done before, and the commercials and advertisements were non-stop. No one knew what to expect, and everyo...read more

by Ana Montano

J.J Abrams is an exceptionally creative mind. As a big fan of his TV hits, Lost and Alias, I was thrilled to see how his talent would translate to the big screen. Though I was excited, I went in to the movie with low to mo...read more

by Kyle Leinen

Cloverfield The film that had everyone buzzing with curiosity and irritation has final arrived after being kept under the radar by producer J.J. Abrams, the creator of Alias and LOST. Kudos has to be give...read more

by Peter Gee

Cloverfield (2008) Dir: Matt Reeves It is Mid-May in Manhattan. What was supposed to be a surprise farewell party turned into a fight for survival against Godzilla-like creatures bringing New Yorker's to their knees - A...read more

by Dale Unger

This weekend, I found the time to watch three movies. The best of these three was easily CLOVERFIELD. In an interesting decision, mirroring THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, this movie is told from the Point of View of a video c...read more

by Pamela Hendricks

This movie Cloverfield was good and the main character was trying to get a movie together by video tape. He wanted to document a going away party and have something to look at while his brother was going away to the servic...read more

by Frank Thomas

I was robbed. When I plunked down my hard earned cash to see Cloverfield, I expected a monster movie less unlike anything I had ever seen, a monster that would live forever in my nightmares, a movie that would suspend d...read more

by Nathan Innit

Oh, there's always one isn't there? One person that isn't going to like what is the movie of the year, if not the decade. What is Cloverfield as a movie? A movie you leave the screening talking about A movie you check...read more

by Nicki Marks

Cloverfield is, in my opinion, one of the best movies to come out in a long time. It follows the story of a group of friends as they are attacked in New York by a giant monster. The entire movie is seen through a home vid...read more