Firstly I have to disagree with a lot you say in your review. I saw the movie yesterday and it was hands down the greatest film I've ever seen since, "The Matrix."
Your initial comparison between "The Blair With Project" and "Cloverfield" is like a comparison between Dragonball Z and The Looney Toons. They might both be cartoons, but they sure as hell are nothing a like. Cloverfield's use of the camera and the perspective it gets is nothing like "The Blair With Project." Cloverfield executed this camera perspective with amazing quality; not only this but it executed it in such a way that you were there, you were feeling what Robb and Lilly were feeling as well as Hud. The Blair With Project was nothing but a scam to try and get you to believe in an obviously BS story. To compare the two movies is just absurd. The ONLY thing they have in common is they use a camera as the perspective. But it ends there.
Everyone in the theater I was at loved the film, no one had motion sickness and I've personally never had a friend or family member or even a co-worker complain about motion sickness from a camera perspective before. However, if you can't handle watching something like that, than please, don't go see it than rate it down because you couldn't handle it.
Secondly I do not see how you can say it's not action-packed. Maybe you missed the scene where the girls head exploded or the Army/Marines came in with Tanks and troops launching missiles at the monster, perhaps you also missed the B-2 bomber carpet bombing the beast to hell? Did you also miss the helicopter crashing as well as the head to the Staue of Liberty crashing down right in front of them? Perhaps you also missed the Empire State Building crashing down into the ground and causing mass chaos? I might also add that you may have missed the tanker exploding in the harbor? Did you even watch the movie is now my question...?
The complaint that I will voice is about the smaller monsters that accompany the big one.Their inclusion in the film feels a bit lazy to me as they only act as a device to push the characters around and keep them moving. They don't affect the story in any way and don't offer us any clues as to the monster's intentions or origins.
It's called plot development. Maybe you haven't heard of it. Maybe you also missed out on when the little creatures slaughtered the Army/Marines and also attacked the characters? How can you say they don't affect the story; they caused one of the main characters to die. Not only this but they were everywhere, just as they should be. Did you not see how when the Behemoth breathed that they came pouring out...now, take how many breathes the monster takes and take into account about how many little creatures would come out. Of course they drive people on ward! They are everywhere! Once again, did you even watch the film?
This is exactly why I don't take any reviews by critics seriously any more. It's as if they haven't even watched the film. The reviews I read from actual people versus website reviews and critic reviews it like night and day.
I suggest everyone take Travis' review worth a grain of salt and nothing more. Go see the film for yourself. It's highly worth it and it's quite possibly the best $7.00 I have spent at the movies in a long long time. I'll leave it at that.
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