“Cloverfield” Movie Review

Okay.  I’m a Mom with little kids.  So I do not get out to movies very often and I am very often too tired to sit through the ones that I rent – so having rented Cloverfield last Monday, I finally got around to watching it out of guilt; “I paid for it, so I had better watch it”. 

So – first – the opening is a bit annoying – the whole angst about a guy who loves a girl but doesn’t tell her until it is too late…very Friends-like.  Then – the monster – very scary.  But – I don’t get why everybody decides to cross a bridge knowing that there is a monster that, having just ripped the head off the Statue of Liberty, is still stampeding through Manhattan - wouldn’t you think that herding hundreds of people onto a bridge is sort of like offering it an hors doeuvre?  And then the whole – we are going back to save my girl thing.  Seriously?  Then the whole – lets go into the dark train tunnel – yeah – that’s bad idea.  Finally – to top it off – the little baby alien-type monsters that make sounds like Donald Duck.  THAT, I couldn’t believe.  Someone else MUST have noticed that…so I had to stop the movie to google “Donald Duck monsters Cloverfield”.  Guess what.  I wasn’t the only person who noticed.

I did finish watching the movie – the ending was meh.  The fact that bitten people explode is sort of Thing-ish and sort of Alien-ish.  The bleeding eyes – very Ebola-ish and 24-ish.  All in all – I could not engage in the all important “suspension of disbelief”.  Still, not a bad movie.