Initially when this movie was made it was very hush, hush and had multiple cover names while it went from editing to post to marketing so it would remain a secret. The first anyone outside of a very small circle of people inside Paramount, saw anything, was the trailer attached to Transformers in July of ‘07. The trailer gave no indication as to the theme or plot and ended in nothing but a cryptic date of 011808. The fanboys went wild trying to get to the bottom of what this meant, and I was no different. Later it was discovered the film’s title was Cloverfield or Project Cloverfield and it was a secret project from JJ Abrams that involved a monster attacking New York city ala Godzilla and King Kong. Now you’re probably wondering why I’m wasting time telling you the stuff you already know about it, and I’m avoiding telling you anything you don’t. Well that’s because any information I offer will spoil the movie for you and we don’t do that around here.

The movie follows the story of a group of people trying to get out of the city in the minutes/hours after the initial attack. The creature sinks tanker in the Hudson river and rips the head off of Lady Liberty before their very eyes. This is enough of a wake up call for these folks to say it’s time to get out of Dodge. The group consisting of Caplan, Miller, Yustman, Stahl-David an Lucas try to escape a city over run by the Military, explosions and a giant monster… That you do get to see, and oddly enough you see it pretty often.

The production value is high, the sound is excellent and the effects were outstanding… and had it not been for a weak plot device that made half the audience start saying WTF are they doing… this movie would’ve been 5 stars.

In the traditional style of the monster movies of the 60’s, Cloverfield delivers exactly what you’re looking for if that’s your cup of tea.