This is still one of my all time favorite horror movies. Start to finish you feel like all the helpless citizens running for their lives and it's terrifying. So many memorable sequences it's underrated af.

Excellent sci fi monster flick. I liked it despite the found footage genre.

My favorite "monster" movie as well as found-footage type film of all time. Feels very real (great acting performances, a very realistic depiction of Manhattan and thus many scenes feeling too reminiscent of 9/11) and it somehow holds up in time.

Cloverfield surprisingly bites your soul with shocks of no other, having us witness the terror from below rather than above.

The funny thing is you follow your friend to rescue her girlfriend 🤣

This is just an absolutely amazing found footage movie. It's basically a monster movie but from the perspective of the people who live in the city. It starts off normally, with a party, and then around 20 minutes in turns into an immersive nightmare. So let's start with the party. It effectively introduces the characters and explains what they're like and what their relationships are. It's a great way to start the movie, giving us a sense of the characters, which are the most important part of the movie. Then, the main part of the movie happens. When Clover wakes up and wreaks havoc. It's brilliant. It's entertaining, nightmarish and the ending is brilliant. It's tragic, but brilliant. There's a chance the couple survived, though, as the camera survived, so who says they didn't survive? Maybe I'm just in denial. I don't know. Overall, amazing movie.

Cloverfield is my personal favorite movie of all-time. The found footage style makes it feel like you are there in the middle of the chaos. The most underrated part of the movie is the character development. We get a very good sense of the friendships and romances prior to the "attack" in the movie. T.J. Miller is fantastic as the heel of the group and the cameraman. Liz Kaplan is great as the hot sort of emo girl who Miller has a crush on. The whole thing feels very real. It is the best movie I've ever watched in terms of portraying the realization that something existential is happening. The general sense of shock, dread, and ultimately, the acceptance of what is happening is done better than any other movie. The visuals with the military and the monster were way ahead of their time. Despite being made in 2007, the visuals would look great even in 2025 (as I write this review). Outstanding movie. 5/5. If you like mass chaos/Armageddon type movies, this is an absolute must-watch.

The movie looks good, the CGI is ok and has aged well, the action is also ok, but! The characters.... God.... They're all insufrible!

Firstly, you can skip the first 20 minutes of this movie. It's at that point when the monster shows up, and the movie actually starts. This movie somehow feels... real to me. You know all those people in the background of a monster/superhero movies, who die in droves but it doesn't matter because they're not the main characters? What if you where one of those people? What if it happened to you? The creature itself is rarely seen throughout the runtime, but it's menacing presence is felt throughout, as manhattan slowly becomes more unrecognisable. Even if the monster ended up being killed, the world would never be the same. As the poster states, something had found us. If you suspend your disbelief, and really think about the extistential horror the situation implies, Cloverfield is truly one of the best takes on the monster movie genre, and a top 10 movie in my book. Half a star off because of the pointless exposition and confusing setup. Also the helicopter should have flown higher.

Would have been better if the characters weren’t all shallow, dysfunctional people that I would never want to be around under any circumstances. Funny how long the power stays on with all that damage. I wanted it to be good but it wasn’t. The hand-held camera thing gets old fast.

After 20 minutes of watching a handheld video of a party that had only a tangential connection to the story, I complete lost interest and turned it off. Poorly edited.

A Sci-Fi Horror Classic. Pretty solid all around. It takes Godzilla, Alien, and The Blair With Project and mashes it all together. You get this as the end product. The found footage/shaky cam works well. Really well in certain scenes with the monster attack where its pretty frightening actually. This does have a notable amount of more polish and budget than a setting like Blair Witch where it feels so raw and unrefined. This defintely is a few steps above that in production value and thrills. It defintely feels like a JJ Abhrams picture in retrospect and has lost a ittle bit of the shine it had in 08'. The characters are well acted but there pretty one dimensional, the side ones are a bit forgettable. Rob is a bit annoying and a college idiot more than stoic and a rock, which is what i think they were going for. I mean he's putting his friends in danger because he could'nt keep it in his pants/ So it's hard for me to find any sympathy for the idiot. T.J. Miller for his debut is pretty good in the frantic moments but man sometimes it gets a bit much with the humor. Not Jar Jar level but I think he needed to be a bit more serious. The first 20 minutes setting the characters up is easily the weakest part and is just alright. It's jumpy, feels meandering, and theres so many people thrown at us so quickly it's hard to remember them all anyway. It becomes a whole different film and doesn't let up once the alien attacks. There also is no soundtrack in this either but it's never dry which is a testament to how well done it is. The CGI is pretty good and the alien is pretty good actually but a bit on the generic side. Sometimes the found footage can hold it back because you wish it could be a bit more. Also, the question is does it do anything better or as good as the films it's borrowing from like how Alien does from Star Wars and Psycho.. And the answer is it does them well but not AS good. So if you have seen any of the films it's borrowing from you may have a bit of deja vu. Theres also a couple product placements that made me roll my eyes as well. Anyone is a fan JJ, the franchise, Modern Sci-Fi, found fottage flicks, or any actors in this should check this out.

Cool movie, the only thing bothering me was the main guy dragging all of his friends to death for some girl.

Handheld video is never a good thing. After about one minute of jittery, jumpy video , I started getting a headache and had to stop.

Shaky cam, expletive, camera drops, expletive, death, TJ Miller funny quip, shaky cam, expletive. REPEAT. That was pretty much the whole movie . Don't get me wrong, there are moments that I enjoyed and elements that I found interesting, but as a whole, Cloverfield was uninspiring.

I think that Cloverfield is the perfect found footage monster film. It's done so well because it has such an absurd concept, but it sets it up in a layer of hyper realism so it makes the rest of the film more believable. And Cloverfield is unique in how it intensifies the horror by setting up emotional connections with the characters. Cloverfield is a must see and one of the best horror films of all time.

This is a certified classic for a reason, it has fantastic creature design and it's also pleasantly aged well.

Nice concept, but not the most likeable characters

Could have been an excellent “found footage” sci fi monster thriller, even as it covers well-trod ground, were it not for: (a) overdone and excessive “shaky cam” (which reduces rather than enhances the feeling of authenticity), (b) largely unlikeable protagonists/ main characters, and (c) overriding everything else, an entirely unlikeable character, “Hud”, who is the person holding the camera, and whose incessant, intrusive, grating, annoying, and idiotic dialogue throughout the film renders it almost unwatchable - so much so that his character’s death near the end of the film is the “feel good” moment of the movie.

El director, Matt Reves realmente supo manejar la acción y los momentos tranquilos de formas muy buenas haciendo que no se sienta tan lenta y tediosa.