- Studio: Paramount Pictures
- Release Date: Jan 18, 2008
- Starring: Jessica Lucas, Lizzy Caplan, Mike Vogel
- Summary:
- Director: Matt Reeves
- Genre(s): Action, Sci-Fi, Mystery, Thriller
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 26 out of 37
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Mixed: 7 out of 37
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Negative: 4 out of 37
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100A dazzling experiment that paid off immensely, this is cinematic pleasure at its purest. One caveat: If they ever make a sequel, we’re taking two stars back.
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75Mercifully, at 84 minutes the movie is even shorter than its originally alleged 90-minute running time; how much visual shakiness can we take? And yet, all in all, it is an effective film, deploying its special effects well and never breaking the illusion that it is all happening as we see it.
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60Despite a first reel entirely devoted to establishing characters, Cloverfield is basically a line-'em-up, pick-'em-off horror movie that's effective without being either viscerally frightening or emotionally moving. Watching it is like going through a car wash: You come out of it thoroughly Cloverfield-ized, but essentially unchanged.
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38No movie this year will better embody Macbeth's description of life itself: "a tale ... full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
Score distribution:
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Positive: 259 out of 451
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Mixed: 33 out of 451
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Negative: 159 out of 451
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8This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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7The movie certainly has a good premise, but unanswered questions in the end and a camera that is way too shaky disrupt the experience.
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