Cloverfield - US Kaiju

I finally went and seen this movie on Wednesday night. I have to say I was really impressed with how the movie was done. I really have no complaints, besides the shakey camcorder type footage. Thats just my personal opinion though. For cloverfield it worked well, but in general I just dont care for what they consider the realistic shakey cam.

Down to the important stuff the monster. I didnt know what to expect really. I mean thru out the movie you see different parts of the monster. An arm here, a leg there, we see the tail at one point which I noticed it had fins and reminded me of some sort of fish like creature. Which going on the fish type theory, the monster seems to have a slimy appearance, not scaley reptilian skin like I had thought. I dont want to go to much into it becuase for those that havent seen it, I think it makes the whole experience that much better when you finally see the creature in all its beauty. From the way it walks and how the arms bend, to its roar and the background information that apparently its a baby that is lost and confused wrecking New York. After all that I still wish the monster had more screen time, but this isnt Japan and they needed to give the creature context by giving you the point of view from the people trying to flee.

In true Kaiju fashion, the Japanese would have had still poses of it standing and destroying stuff, giving you glimpses of the whole body. Either way again this isnt Japan and for what the US has as far as giant monster movies, the Cloverfield creature stands on its own and is a great design and great concept. Even down to the ending credits, with the ending theme song roaring away. It so reminded me of the Godzilla theme. So for those who are big Kaiju movie fans, Cloverfield is an awsome movie and definetly has a spot on reserve in my dvd collection right next to Godzilla, Gamera, The Host etc...