Why is there so much secrecy surrounding this movie? I saw the first teaser in the previews before Transformers and like everybody else who saw it I immediately wanted to know more. But so many months after that, and just a couple of days before the movie is released, all we know is the little we have seen in the trailers and from the synopsis from the official Cloverfield website:

Five young New Yorkers throw their friend a going-away party the night that a monster the size of a skyscraper descends upon the city. Told from the point of view of their video camera, the film is a document of their attempt to survive the most surreal, horrifying event of their lives

The viral marketing campaign has only increased the number of questions without giving any real answer about the plot of the movie. We do know that a monster attacks New York City (is it only me, or this kind of stories are getting old?) and that a group of friends try to escape which they film with a handheld camera. Not know what it really is has generated a lot of expectation among movie goers, but the important questions about the movie remain.

Will this movie deliver a coherent story and interesting characters other than just destruction in a rampage of special effects? I personally don’t expect too much from the movie. I don’t even expect to learn what the monster looks like (remember The Blair Witch Project?), but I expect to be at least entertained with this movie. That is something that many late Hollywood blockbusters had failed to do.

Cloverfield (USA)
1hr 24min
Rated: PG-13
Director: Matt Reeves
Writer: Drew Goddard
Cast:

• Michael Stahl-David as Robert Hawkins
• Mike Vogel as Jason “Hawk” Hawkins
• Odette Yustman as Beth McIntyre
• Lizzy Caplan as Marlena Diamond
• Jessica Lucas as Lily Ford
• T. J. Miller as Hudson “Hud” Platt
• Blake Lively