You’ll have to forgive us for our lame, half-hearted attempt to replicate the shaky-cam effect from Cloverfield at the beginning of this review.
J.J. Abrams attempt to give the U.S. its own version of Godzilla, however, scored very highly with the usually stingy Erin Rock.
The 4.75 Stars given to Cloverfield marks her fourth-highest review yet through 54 films.
Higher even than the movie that features this impossibly cool screenshot, if you can believe that.
For a movie to beat Center Stage in Erin’s eyes, it must be a high quality film (or, depending on your point-of-view, it must be better than one of the worst movies ever made).
Cloverfield falls short of being a classic horror movie (think Jaws or, if you are Bret, Halloween), but is a solid film that used the found footage concept extremely well before it became incredibly annoying. Every other film nowadays is a found-footage film and Cloverfield has to accept some of the blame for that phenomenon.
An incredible 4.75 Stars from Erin and a respectable 4 Stars from Bret.
An artist’s depiction of Erin and her Stars.
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