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Cloverfield,the trailer
During my previous visit to the local movie theater to see Alien vs. Predator 2 I had been curious about the previews for Cloverfield. The previews had shown a spectacular explosion set against the nighttime New York cityscape. The head of a decapitated Statue of Liberty was shown striking a high rise building and crashing on the street. I was lead to believe this would be an awesome science fiction thriller. I was wrong.
Before gambling $10 on a movie fare I visited the Cloverfield website seeking some sort of synopsis of the movie. I was disappointed only to find the two teasers or trailers I had seen at the theater during earlier visits. Perhaps they couldn’t afford to pay the webmaster with the $25 million budget that was spent on the production of the movie.
The first person point of view used in the movie could have possibly been an effective vehicle for laying the groundwork and developing the setting of the movie, even possibly introducing us to some of the characters. Instead we are left to sit and anticipate a change in cinematography where the movie will begin to flesh out and we will be given a story to assimilate. This simply doesn’t happen. We end up looking at people’s feet running across the ground and characters risking their lives running down dark empty subway tunnels when a nasty monster and it’s offspring are running loose.
In addition the director’s choice of using suggestive and foreboding 9-11 cinematography does nothing to fill the thrill vacuum that is persistent throughout the movie.
Moreover, I have heard in casual conversation that some theater goers complained of disorientation due to the movie being filmed entirely in ‘handycam style.’ Personally the disorientation due to the movie’s amateurish cinematography did not bother me. I was more disappointed than disoriented by this film.