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Cloverfield [2007] | ![Cloverfield [2007]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51tpbZ4XcxL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Matt Reeves
Actors: Michael Stahl-david, Lizzy Caplan, Mike Vogel, Odette Yustman, Jessica Lucas
Studio: Paramount Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Rating:  165 reviews
Sales Rank: 973
Format: Pal
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Region: 2
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 81 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5014437943538
ASIN: B0014E9174
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Release Date: June 9, 2008
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One of the first things a viewer notices about Cloverfield is that it doesn't play by ordinary storytelling rules, making this intriguing horror film as much a novelty as an event. Told from the vertiginous point-of-view of a camcorder-wielding group of friends, Cloverfield begins like a television soap opera about young Manhattanites coping with changes in their personal lives. Rob (Michael Stahl-David) is leaving New York to take an executive job at a company in Japan. At his goodbye party in a crowded loft, Rob's brother Jason (Mike Vogel) hands a camcorder to best friend Hud (T.J. Miller), who proceeds to tape the proceedings over old footage of Rob's ex-girlfriend, Beth (Odette Yustman)--images shot during happy times in their ex-relationship. Naturally, Beth shows up at the party with a new beau, bumming Rob out completely. Just before one's eyes glaze over from all this heartbreaking stuff (captured by Hud, who's something of a doofus, in laughably shaky camerawork), the unexpected happens: New York is suddenly under attack from a Godzilla-like monster stomping through midtown and destroying everything and everybody in sight. Rob and company hit the streets, but rather than run with other evacuees, they head toward the center of the storm so that Rob can rescue an injured Beth. There are casualties along the way, but the journey into fear is fascinating and immediate if emotionally remote--a consequence of seeing these proceedings through the singular, subjective perspective of a camcorder and of a story that intentionally leaves major questions unanswered: Who or what is this monster? Where did it come from? The lack of a backstory, and spare views of the marauding creature, are clever ways by producer J.J. Abrams and director Matt Reeves to keep an audience focused exclusively on what's on the screen. But it also makes Cloverfield curiously uninvolving. Ultimately, Cloverfield, with its spectacular effects brilliantly woven into a home-video look, is a celebration of infinite possibilities in this age of accessible, digital media. -Tom Keogh
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 Cloverfield actually managed to surpass it's hype.... August 28, 2008
O. Doyle (Ireland)
If you've been living in a cave for months then you've probably not heard that Cloverfield is a film about a giant monster attacking Manhattan all seen through the perspective of a 20-something's hand-held camera. The film has been hyped for months ....to the point where I wasn't sure it could live up to the hype. Amazingly I think it did.
After the initial 15mins of character introduction and whatnot the film does not go 5mins minutes without a WHOA moment. Because it was filmed using a shaky camera Cloverfield was compared to The Blair Witch Project long before it hit the cinemas. For me that was what deterred me from seeing it. Thankfully in Cloverfield the shaky camera worked and the camera itself becomes a character of the film as it IS the viewer making everything happening on-screen more and more realistic.
Some may complain that the acting is amateur but I think it worked for Cloverfield as the film would have made no sense if they had used big name actors/actresses. Instead we're introduced to a bunch of nobodies trying to survive a monster attack. Likewise a film with no music would seem an odd concept but adding music would have taken away from the whole experience.
The monster itself isn't seen in its entirety and is in fact only seen from different angles, leaving the audience to piece it together just as the survivors themselves are. Amazingly, this movie pulls off the seemingly impossible feat of making New York City seem claustrophobic because there was seemingly nowhere to hide from the monster. The movie draws you in, makes you a part of the experience. It succeeds primarily because of two things; what you see and what you hear.
All in all Cloverfield works. It didn't have the budget of some of the bigger monster movies but it managed to knock the socks off them all the same. 10/10.
 God Awful August 26, 2008
J. beck
Well what can i say week's of adverts all building up to what i thought would be the most coolest monster ever, I was so horribly wrong. You see the monster once properly and he's so plain it's unbelievable. Another thing that was crap about this movie is the fact that i hated all the characters in the film none of them where at all likable, even worse is the fact that the two worst characters were the guy holding the camera who's just a straight up loser and the main character who's leading all his friends to death by going on some bizarre journey to some woman you would of thought would of been dead. What i think was even more annoying was the fact that they hardly even explained where the monster came from... oh no wait a second i think at one point the camera man comes up with a theory. Wait just one minute so this complete idiots theory is all we have to go on with how the monster came about without anyone ever noticing it even though it's massive. I've said enough this film was worse than watching a monkey pick it's nose.
NOT VERY GOOD August 24, 2008
P. wellard
ALTHOUGH MY WIFE LIKED THIS I WAS NOT SO IMPRESSED WHERE DID THE MONSTER COME FROM HOW DID THE CAMERA LAST SO LONG WITH ALL THE US FIRE POWER AND STILL NOT A SCRATCH ON THE MONSTER SO MANY OTHER QUESTIONS NEEDED ANSWERING DONT EXPECT TO MUCH FROM THIS VERY SHORT FILM
Blair Witch meets Mimic meets Alien August 19, 2008
Widescreen Wesley (UK)
The shaky camera techniques aside (used so well in films like Saving Private Ryan and the 2nd and 3rd of The Bourne movies) Cloverfield has nothing new to say really. I love horror and sci-fi, so desperately tried to enjoy this / be amazed but it didn't pull me in. Characters that had no depth .....despite, or in spite of...the fly on the wall technique. The characters always came across as actors trying to look and sound as though they weren't acting. Furthermore, it's unavoidable for the viewer not to reference with 9/11 at some point.. intentionally or not on behalf of the film makers... the surprise and shock of what's suddenly happening...the smoke and ash raining down..the location of New York...the horror of the destruction.......the desperate attempt of the central character to reach and save his girl....all of this did strike a chord, but somehow failed to be sufficiently moving within the context of the movie, but almost achieved that with the juxtaposition of the interspersed camera clips of 'normal' day to day footage left on the camcorder. All in all a brave attempt to do something different with the genre, that didn't quite make the grade.
 What's the point of this film? August 18, 2008
Mr. S. L. Arnell (UK)
Exactly what the title says - what's the point? Why make it? Its been done before so many times over and over. A monster destroys a city. And its always New York that gets destroyed. A stupid idea to completely ignore the start and finish of a film and think that just showing a section of the middle is great film making. Yes they will make another one which may or may not explain why the thing is there and where it came from. But again it will be another unoriginal film in a genre that has no fresh ideas. Most people may not care enough to want to go and see it. I'm one of them.
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