Review – Cloverfield

The scenes with monsters in them are actually pretty good. Too bad that’s a really small percentage of the total screen time. Part of me wants to applaud the risk taken here. A beast with no back story or logical modus operandi has a lot more scary potential than more conventional horror fare. Unfortunately the picture squanders the first 20 minutes of its less-than-90 total running time establishing the protagonists as vapid, New York yuppies. That might make them sympathetic to the film-makers’ fellow vapid, New York yuppies, but it leaves the rest of the world rooting for the monsters. If only the first quarter hadn’t worked so hard to wear out the movie’s welcome, this would have been a considerably better production. Mildly amusing