Cloverfield

Director: Matt Reeves
Year: 2008
Cast: Lizzy Caplan, Jessica Lucas, T.J. Miller, T.J. Miller
Rating: ***1/2 (Out of ****)

This is, arguably, the best creature flick since Jurassic Park. I say Jurassic Park because I liked it for the same reasons I like Coverfield, novelty and creativity. We are there in the middle of a major crisis and for some time we even don't know the cause. The digital hand-held shaky camera achieves what it is set out to, the claustrophobic feel of an imminent danger bubbles us with cast members. Thus achieving the very intention, I think, of the filmmakers. There's this guy called Hud whose camera capture the entire movie. It's hard to imagine how a person can film everything when such an horrific attack is under way. But, hey, it's for you to watch. It's like your window to an alien attack

The production design is exquisite even if the camera understandably can't capture it completely. But the devastation is crated stupendously, much better than much hyped Godzilla. The special effects are excellent either but, you see, this movie is not about special effects, nor about the monster who attacks Manhattan. We even don't know what happens to the two survivors. I still believe I didn't quite understand the point of making such a movie but it works, it really does. This is very innovative effort, nothing short of a cinematic achievement, a movie not to be missed!