I will be starting a new thing on EatFruitPlease and that will be movie reviews of any recent ‘new’ films that i’ve seen. I’ll give a brief introduction of what the film is about and then just give you my verdict on it and how I thought it was.

Cloverfield - 01/02/2008

“Cloverfield is a film which is told by five young New Yorkers who document a terrifying experience of a monster who descends upon the city.”

As soon as I saw the trailer I knew it was ‘my type of film’ to go and see. To be honest, my first impressions were that it was some sort of terrorism type film or a kind of war film, but when I seen the poster and illustration for the film I then realized that it was some sort of monster related film. Not long back from actually seeing the film I was impressed. I love how the story is told through the hand held camera and you can’t tell whats going to happen next. I also love the irony that some of the scenes show, for example at the very end of the film the camera somehow rewinds to were two of the main characters are filming on some sort of transport and the camera is lying so that it is looking into the water and you see the actual monster crash landing into the water - but the two people do not realize or know anything about it.

Overall, I really enjoyed the film. If you have seen it yourself and would like to comment on it or let me know which parts of the film you liked//disliked please participate and comment in the comments section.

Kindest regards,

James