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Title: could have been good, had it's moments
Review: i bought 'Cloverfield' on dvd today- i'm glad i bought it with points, i'd have been TICKED if i'd paid for it. it didn't completely suck, but if you thought it looked like a really good monster movie you were wrong. i thought so, and was wrong. it was shot in the 'blair witch' style, nauseating shaky camera that never sits still and takes the bold move (for an action flick) of virtually NEVER showing the action. i guess it's supposed to look 'real' but it was just too gimmicky. i garantee there is as much total darkness and/or shots of the sidewalk as anything else. i'd say 40% off centered bad acting, 5% scary monster (just his legs & back, tho... lord knows i HATE seeing the monster in a monster flick, gosh) and the remaining 55% is black sky, black streets, dust, debris... you get the idea. i'd have walked out on it in the theater long before it got to the cool parts.
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