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Cloverfield

Play trailer 1:47 Poster for Cloverfield PG-13 Released Jan 18, 2008 1h 25m Sci-Fi Mystery & Thriller Action Play Trailer Watchlist
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As a group of New Yorkers (Michael Stahl-David, Mike Vogel, Odette Yustman) enjoy a going-away party, little do they know that they will soon face the most terrifying night of their lives. A creature the size of a skyscraper descends upon the city, leaving death and destruction in its wake. Using a handheld video camera, the friends record their struggle to survive as New York crumbles around them.
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A sort of Blair Witch Project crossed with Godzilla, Cloverfield is economically paced, stylistically clever, and filled with scares.

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Deborah Ross The Spectator Cloverfield is tiresome, dumb and horrid, and just in case you didn't get that I'll say it again: this film is tiresome, dumb and horrid. Don't go. Aug 23, 2018 Full Review David Fear Time Out Rated: 3/5 Nov 18, 2011 Full Review Jordan Hoffman UGO For gasps and thrills and movie monster mayhem, the film is a success. It's not flawless, but if you shove that aside, I guarantee you that you will have a gas at the theater. Rated: A- Aug 14, 2009 Full Review Matt Brunson Film Frenzy Director Matt Reeves and writer Drew Goddard effectively tap into that decade’s post-9/11 anxieties. Rated: 3/4 Feb 15, 2023 Full Review Stephen Silver Tilt Magazine Remains one of the better entrees in the early-aughts found-footage boom (15th anniversary) Rated: 4/5 Feb 10, 2023 Full Review Cory Woodroof For the Win (USA Today) Fifteen years after Cloverfield‘s release, the terrorizing monster movie remains one of the best examples of studio ingenuity, taking a worn-out genre and infusing it with something hyper-relevant and truly unpredictable. Jan 25, 2023 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member Cloverfield surprisingly bites your soul with shocks of no other, having us witness the terror from below rather than above. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/08/25 Full Review Fachrul Ulum F The funny thing is you follow your friend to rescue her girlfriend 🤣 Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/08/25 Full Review Josh A 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. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/07/25 Full Review Bradley B 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. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/04/25 Full Review Douglas L 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! Rated 1 out of 5 stars 11/27/24 Full Review Audience Member 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. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 11/11/24 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis As a group of New Yorkers (Michael Stahl-David, Mike Vogel, Odette Yustman) enjoy a going-away party, little do they know that they will soon face the most terrifying night of their lives. A creature the size of a skyscraper descends upon the city, leaving death and destruction in its wake. Using a handheld video camera, the friends record their struggle to survive as New York crumbles around them.
Director
Matt Reeves
Producer
J.J. Abrams, Bryan Burk
Screenwriter
Drew Goddard
Distributor
Paramount Pictures
Production Co
Bad Robot
Rating
PG-13 (Terror|Disturbing Images|Violence)
Genre
Sci-Fi, Mystery & Thriller, Action
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jan 18, 2008, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Aug 1, 2013
Box Office (Gross USA)
$80.0M
Runtime
1h 25m
Sound Mix
Dolby SRD, DTS, SDDS
Aspect Ratio
Flat (1.85:1)
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