Starring: Michael Stahl-David, T.J. Miller, Jessica Lucas, Lizzy Caplan
Director: Matt Reeves
Category: IIA
Another month, another film about apocalypse in New York. Four weeks ago, I Am Legend unleashed mayhem in the Big Apple in the form of a deadly virus, which emptied the city of its living inhabitants.
With Cloverfield, the alien form spewing death and destruction is a gargantuan beast, which emerges from nowhere to snap the head off the Statue of Liberty, take down the Manhattan Bridge, and reduce Lower Manhattan to smouldering ruins. It's never explained where this Godzilla-like creature came from - but it's hardly the most logic-defying element in this J.J. Abrams-produced feature. The thing that beggars belief the most is why these catastrophic images are caught on tape. Taking its cue from the Blair Witch Project, Cloverfield - which begins with a test signal, a time code and a text card saying the recording is uncovered from 'a place formerly known as
Central Park' - is supposed to be a video shot by young New Yorker Hud (T.J. Miller), who is unbelievably gung-ho in sticking to his task even when chaos and death comes calling as he tries to escape from the monster.
'People will want to know how it all went down,' Hud says to his fellow escapees as they try to persuade him to press stop and concentrate on his own survival. There are moments in the
