Critical Response to Cloverfield Review

Lisa Schwarzbaum’s negative review did not focus on the worst parts of the movie Cloverfield.  Instead, she focused on the inexperienced crew that, “did not have anything interesting to say.”  She felt that the use of terms such as, “dude,” (which she considered negative) gave the movie a young, casual feel; this worked well for the movie.  In the last section she briefly mentions the camera work as being, “a big picture disaster.”  More focus needed to be put into this because the camera work makes one want to run to the nearest bathroom and vomit of motion sickness.  This was the greatest downfall of the movie aside for the lack of story development and closure.  Cloverfield had to be the easiest story to write because the story consisted of a monster coming from an unknown location which then began to terrorize the city. There was only slight mention as to it being a sea creature by one the main characters that is portrayed as being less than intelligent.  Also the ending is as open to interpretation as the appearance of the monster.  Lisa was right in bashing the movie. However, she did not focus on the proper aspects that made the viewer leave the theater wondering why they had not stayed home to watch reruns of Judge Judy.