• A movie you leave the screening talking about
• A movie you check the internet for opinions on the minute you're home
• A movie that, even when you're tucked up in bed shutting your eyes, you still question

• Any good

Sickened is probably the best way to describe how I feel about the surprise way it was filmed, I was not expecting the whole movie to be shown to us the way it was presented at all. Had the cinema gone wrong, were we all ready for our refunds? Nope, what we were watching was to be a classified government file, and even when the home video turned on I was half expecting someone in the front row to bend down on one knee and perform the romantic gesture of proposing to their girlfriend infront of the public. The opening scene has Rob Hawkins (Michael Stahl-David) behind the personal video camera, filming Beth (Odette Yustman) the love of his life as she lay next to him in bed, on a day they plan to make the most of due to Rob moving to Japan on work. To somes surprise, if you hadn't read about it before hand, the movie does continue to pan out this way as the second cameraman of the movie, Hud (TJ Miller) takes over the role to capture Rob's leaving party and ultimately the huge disaster, bigger than 9/11, that hits New York City. I did eventually come to accept that the way the movie was presented was incredibly intelligent, however it was probably the first time I had felt sea sick in my cinema seat. I paid £7.10 for a sturdy experience.

Viewing the monster is not easy, and when you really want to see what is going on as the army try to stop anymore destructure, you usually have Hud holding the camera on another scene. What do I hate about Cloverfield the most though? No, it is not the title of the movie making no sense to me and a field of clovers not being enough to cheer me up. Nor is it the fact that I keep referring to it as 'Cluverfield' because I can't get my head around the name. What I hate the most has to be... the monsters little babies, that it drops off its body and in turn attacks characters. We never get a true answer to what the purpose of these little monsters are, and they are little monsters in every true sense of the word, however are we lead to believe they carry a curse similar to that of say, a zombie? The casting was excellent in terms of them being unknowns that could perform on the big screen, but it could be said that too much dependance has been put on a sequel to reveal answers that are required. Everyone knows that Cloverfield has ended up being a huge success on a pretty tiny $25 million budget, including being the highest grossing box office hit in the month of January ever in the United States, but what I would have liked is for Cloverfield to be a stand alone mystery. Now we are left waiting for the story to be concluded, perhaps not for the characters included in the movie but for what the monster is, and even the producers themselves have suggested that we could see other stories from that night, or perhaps afterall this could we be left with one stand alone mystery and in 2018 still be awaiting the answers?

• Those of you looking for something to decypher will be left with nothing more than a waste of your time, as there is nothing more here than guess work to be done.
• Filming over Rob and Beth's romantic day out, clearly something Rob was keeping to watch upon arrival in Japan, the way throughout the film it cuts in and out of a month prior is one of the few genius aspects of the movie.
• At times terrifying, I feel there was room here to use a higher age certificate than the 15, however with a destinct lack of characters screaming bad language in their panic out of the city there were more than enough reasons to keep the age certificate down.
• Cloverfield fails to look as visually accomplished as another recent NYC disaster movie, 'A Day After Tomorrow', although that was a movie with an extra $100m on their budget for a movie that was supposedly about a very real threat - so why is it Cloverfield panics me just as much?