Stellead Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

Console best movie i've ever seen.

MusicChat It's complicated... I really like the directing, acting and writing but, there are issues with the way it's shot that I just can't deny. As much as I love the storytelling and the fantastic performance but, there are also certain scenes that didn't need to exist.

AutCuddly Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

Julian R. White Its obvious this was just a rip off of the film "Cloverfield" but its not the worst thing I've ever seen. Some of the acting is convincing while some of it is incredibly bad. One thing I've noticed? Apparently when an entire room full of people scream at you to turn off a camera, you're supposed to ignore them. One thing that infuriates me is that a classic "ROOOOOOOAR" is heard throughout the city, and the 2 american girls are still scratching their heads saying "What's with all the earthquakes?". Its pretty ridiculous. Not to mention my least favorite part? You never really see much of the monster, only really what you would expect given the cover art of the DVD. This is another one of those films that proves how Americans are so much different from the Japanese and seem a lot more crude and disrespectful, but I won't get into all that. Bottom line the movie was, I suppose decent, and had an interesting story line, it just wasn't all that impressive.

FJWWindsor I wanted so much to like this movie going into it, but ended up being bitterly disappointed. Someone should tell Hollywood and independent filmmakers: Enough already with the "found footage" concept!!!The story revolves around two sisters who are documentary filmmakers in Tokyo to produce a piece on global warming. Based on that premise, you would think they have some modicum of professionalism. But from the very beginning, the movie goes astray. First of all, it's difficult to believe professional filmmakers would dress the way these two did, ESPECIALLY in a foreign country as conservative as Japan. No one would take them seriously and consent to be interviewed. Secondly, their technique is sloppy. The camera work is amateurish and their questions regarding global warming are superficial and not well thought out. Speaking of the camera, they must have had the worst, because that thing went on the fritz if someone even breathed too hard. Then there's the obsessive, narcissistic focus on the two girls and each other. If I had a camera (and I'm NOT a professional), I'd try to get as much footage of the monster as possible. Not these two. They just fill the storage with themselves and scenes of tripping, running, tumbling, inane conversation with strangers, crying fits, ruined buildings, food they happened to be eating/drinking at the moment, etc.And this is really where the movie falls down. In a film like this, you've got to show the goods. Spending about an hour on intense build- up only to show a split second tentacle here and there just doesn't cut the mustard. We need to see the full monty. Can you imagine showing the destruction of Tokyo without ever showing Godzilla in those movies? It would be pointless.If you haven't seen it already, the gold standard for the found footage/huge monster concept is Cloverfield. Check it out if you want to see it done right.

rimple Some films are abhorrently bad, but you can still find a redeeming quality in it. But this thing was a monstrous waste. Time better spent watching a turd floating in gas station toilet.Typically, you should feel sympathy for a character. In this film I couldn't wait for the 2 stupid girls to die - despite Sarah Lieving's cleavage shots. Forsberg, Estenberg and Latt should be tarred and feathered for creating such plotlessness, inane dialog and most of all, that retarded damaged tape effect that compelled me to chuck my beer bottle at the TV and hit my wife for buying the damn DVD when there is economic crisis going on.You might be a masochist and want to watch this for the pain factor. Fair enough, but remember there is a long list of other films which should never have been made. Watch one of those instead or better yet, clean your bathroom tiles with a toothbrush.As director Lech Kowalski says: "Film is ecologically unsound and messes up a lot of water in the process of development. Why mess up so much water by making a bad film?"

Cel_Stacker Sisters Sarah and Erin hop the bigger pond, landing in Tokyo to film a documentary about global warming (though God knows why). In the midst of their interview with the Environmental Minister, havoc strikes. At first, it's assumed to be another earthquake. When military presence intensifies, terrorism is suspected. But all too soon, it's revealed to be...something else. Sounds a bit familiar, no? Just to get it out of the way, whether or not it's an unhappy accident of conflicting release dates, there's no getting around that this is "Cloverfield"-lite, with a few (very few) deviations. This is evident--from the distant explosion that marks the start of the action, to the overall concept, to splattering the camera with blood at least once. The monsters even roar as if they were separated at birth. To be fair, this film does have a few things on Cloverfield. The fish-out-of-water angle, namely placing the protagonists in an unfamiliar culture, was a great idea. It's difficult enough to survive disaster when most everyone speaks your language, but when they don't, the challenge is increased quite a bit. While the presentation of the global warming message is..."crunchy" at best, the not-so-subtle hint that global warming itself awakened the creature is another juicy notion. Honestly, there's no better place on earth to set your disaster than Tokyo, the world's capital of disasters! The biggest thing for me personally would have to be the logic of the beast itself. In this film, it seemed to cut its paths of destruction through heavily populated areas, as I believe an angry beast would, rather than conveniently following four scrawny twenty-somethings around, and even directly snacking on one of them, as New York's monster did.Now that that's out of the way, even if Cloverfield never existed, this would still be pretty poor. The creature, a giant squid presumably, isn't actually seen doing very much to constitute a threat. Perhaps it could have actually picked up someone or smashed something, but all we're treated to is many angles of large, waving tentacles. One thing it makes you appreciate is how difficult disaster is to write. It seems that it's very easy to get so wrapped up in the turmoil of your story that you forget how people actually talk, particularly in the midst of emergency. Sarah and Erin (their actual first names, by the way; a bright-and-shining sign of non-actors) appear to struggle on the initiative to keep many of David Michael Latt's throw-away lines out of the production, but enough of them sneak in to become distracting. "I feel like we were meant to be here...", "It's so important to document this..." Sure. I realize they would have to invent reasons for our heroines to lug around an industrial-grade camera, but there must have been another way. Call me shallow, but I believe I'd find it difficult to think of what progeny will see someday when flaming debris is exploding all around me, and the street is caving in underneath my feet.An additional note about the cast--in truth, considering the script, there's really no reason to have anyone American in it. The Japanese actors (and their characters) are FAR better than the American ones; particularly the high-schooler who lives with her half-crazed dad (and dad seems to know something of the angry creature) and the young doctor who just wants to get across town and make sure his son is okay. I wished the film were about THEM, or someone like them. Were I in Erik Estenberg and company's shoes, I'm sure I would have shot the entire thing with an entirely Japanese cast and subtitles. Couldn't the Japanese document their own disasters? They've had lots of practice.So, maybe it's not so much a ripoff as it is just not good. Of course, consider that trailer for another Asylum treat, "AVH". As in, "Alien Vs. Hunter". As in intergalactic hunters with advanced camouflage fighting slimy aliens with elongated heads and teeth. Can't wait for that one, can ya? What? You've seen it? Of course you have...