Cloverfield – 25 Words Won’t Do…
It’s like being beaten around the head every 10 minutes by a fat man with a space hopper. Wow. Came out of it almost disoriented. It is very much an arthouse film masquerading as a blockbuster and with an ending that left the audience stunned into silence for 30 seconds or so until they started clapping. Visceral, terrifying at times (in one place I had my hands over my eyes and I’m a grown man!) and a genuinely fresh take on a hackneyed old genre. Think Godzilla (the good Japanese ones, not the bloody awful Emmerich/Devlin American version) meets Blair Witch […]