Well, this one is a blast from the past. I haven’t seen this movie in ten years since I was a small kid, and I thought to myself, “Huh? What’s going on? Wait, I wanna see the giant monster? Why’d it turn away”. Something along those lines. Yeah, I didn’t really comprehend this film when I was smaller, but I think I liked it. That being said, I was already excited to watch this film again after having not seen it for so long. 2008’s Cloverfield was a cultural film at the time. It didn’t start the found footage genre, but it certainly brought it into the mainstream, and was successful to get a huge cult following and two sequels, the debatably bad 10 Cloverfield Lane and one everyone agrees sucks, Cloverfield Paradox. Is Cloverfield as good as I remember it? Let’s find out



Cloverfield follows the found footage discovered sa pamamagitan ng the U.S. government in what was once Central Park, so it already has some mystery to it as to what went down right off the bat. It shows the footage of Rob and other New Yorkers as the city is attacked sa pamamagitan ng a massive alien creature. No one knows what is going on, and how this creature or the many smaller creatures that followed arrived or what their motive is, and must survive the ordeal. It’s as easy as you’d expect. The film always cuts between scenes of the characters having a normal conversation a few weeks before the disaster, all while the world is coming to an end.
Cloverfield is, like I sinabi before, a film that revolutionized the found footage genre, a genre that most people consider motion sickness incarnate, and terrible. If that were the case, than I’d have to say that the man hold the camera in Cloverfield has the strongest grip in the world. There are moments of shaky cam, but not enough to the point where it will make me sick. And this is coming from a guy with extreme motion sickness. You are able to get a good look at all of the things in the film and then some. And trust me, the visuals make up this movie, because I honestly couldn’t care very much about the characters. I don’t care about Rob and Beth’s romance that pushes them to make stupid choice after stupid choice, and I’m just begging for the moment they die off. Also, I can understand how some people can consider the whole movie stupid, because why would anyone hold onto the camera for this long up until the end of the film. But let’s be real, no one watches Cloverfield for the characters. No, they watch it for the monster.
Now considered an iconic creature in all of modern horror, the Cloverfield Monster, or simply nicknamed Clover, is something so threatening, yet so mysterious. You can see the size of the creature and the threat that it has over the entirety of New York, yet despite knowing what it is capable of, we don’t really know what it is, to be exact. It’s just a giant alien creature that attacks the earth, and that’s about it. Why is it attacking, why is it so powerful, what is its purpose, why does it carry smaller life forms on its body that also attack, and is all this related to the strange foreign object that fell into the ocean at the very end of the film? This is what internet theories are made of, people.
Cloverfield is, in all honesty, a pretty overrated film, mostly because of the characters. If they were just a bit madami interesting and not just people being there just so we can ilipat the plot along, I may like the film a slight bit more. It’s still a great film, but I just fail to see what the hype about it is. If you are interested in a giant monster film with a bit of mystery to it, than I recommend it. Just don’t expect award winning characters here.