^With you there David, I thought it pretty much sucked.
Curse you Peep, beat me to it again! #-o Although you seem to have watched Cloverfirled
.
So yes I just got back from
Cloverfield too. This review will be fairly simple, to match the film!
The first 20 mins - sub-Hollyoaks nonsense (i.e. cheesy teen TV drama).
The remaining 50 mins (short film this) - excellent in-your-face action. Good pacing, great effects, really immersive.
However the main characters (especially the men) are pretty tiresome and vacuous, which doesn't help you feel that much empathy for their plight and undermines the tension (apart from one nicely emotional scene on the mobile (no spoilers)).
But essentially there's NO plot and NO character development, which is why as Peep says the film just ends - it's got nowhere to go.
Would it have killed them to try that *little* bit harder and put some plot in, give it some meat? Lazy, and a shame when it's so effective otherwise.
Really this is the equivalent of a particularly tasty but simple chinese meal - great while you're eating it, but you're hungry again soon after.
6.5/10
[BTW, was it me or was the Hellboy II trailer before it REALLY badly edited?]