Cloverfield

Well as luck would have it, this movie was all hyped up and so when I saw it I was all overloaded with high expectations, nevertheless having said that it was still kind of fun. Cloverfield, which I have yet to figure out the relationship between the title and the movie itself, is one of those old fashion monster movies--without so much of the monster. The alienesque monster attacks New York while we the audience are at a going away party video taping the fond farewells.

It was interesting in that the whole movie is told through a home video cameras point of view. That in and of itself make the movie worth seeing I guess. It wasn't an amazing monster movie, but it was a little different and that makes it new and fun I suppose.

**1/2

Rated PG-13 (for thematic elements, violence, and language)