At the beginning I simply couldn’t identify with film because it was so far fetched in terms of it being a reality based monster movie. However it seems to me that this whole movie is a statement about the war on terror and that the monster (i.e al qaida) cannot be stopped through military might. This made the movie so much more compelling.

There were so many references to 9/11 and even suicide bombings that it just seems that you can watch this film on another level.

I spent the rest of the movie in the back row intermittently looking down at the floor to calm my stomach and to let some of the green drain out of my face.

I am a Monster move fan, my favourites are Them, Godzilla, Tremors and Blair Witch, so I had high expectations.

Unfortuntatley, I agree with Eric. Camera sickness aside, the movie was more like a bad spoof of Godzilla meets Blair Witch.

If they pushed the unrealistic reacations of the headonist characters they set up bit further, they might have been able to pass it off as a send up.

I didn’t feel invested in the characters. They’re the ultra elite spoiled rich children throwing parties in $2 million dollar apartments and making decisions that only the dumbest insane person would make during that kind of situation. They tried to pass off the insane as heroism, but I didn’t buy it.

They’ve already decided to make Cloverfield 2. Without all the buzz and mystery of “What is it?” — who cares?

Easily one of the biggest disappointments of the last few years for me.

Kathleen RE Eastern Promises: The violence was too much? It’s David Cronenberg — you think that’s bad, watch A History of Violence or his cheesy 80s movies like Scanners or Videodrome.

Plus my DH will be thrilled he won’t have to negotiate a chick-flick paydown.