Storyline
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.
Directors
Cast
Rick Overton, T.J. Miller, Odette Annable, Mike Vogel, Liza Lapira, Charlyne Yi, Jessica Lucas, Tim Griffin, Matt Reeves, Rob Kerkovich, Jake McLaughlin, Chris Spinelli, Lizzy Caplan, Rachel Mower, Maria Zambrana, Scott Lawrence, Michael Stahl-David, Anjul Nigam, Margot Farley, Theo Rossi, Brian Klugman, Kelvin Yu, Lili Mirojnick, Ben Feldman, Elena Caruso, Vakisha Coleman, Will Greenberg, Ryan Key, Hooman Khalili, Rasika Mathur, Baron Vaughn, Roma Torre, Martin Cohen, Jason Cerbone, Pavel Lychnikoff, Billy Brown, Jeffrey De Serrano, Chris Mulkey, Susse Budde, Jason Lombard, Jamie Martz, Don Abernathy, Michael Ark, Caley Bisson, James Thomas Bligh, Maylen Calienes, Craig Dabbs, Tommy Gerrits, Jason Giffin, Adam Greeves, Brandon G. Holley, Hisonni Johnson, Adam Karst, Julio Leal, Gene Richards, Bertrand Roberson Jr., John Robert, Andrew Trujillo
Trailer
Reviews
83
Entertainment Weekly
Cloverfield, a surreptitiously subversive, stylistically clever little gem of an entertainment disguised, under its deadpan-neutral title, as a dumb Gen-YouTube monster movie, makes the convincingly chilling argument that the world will end -- or, at least, Manhattan will crumble -- with a bang and a whimper.
75
Cloverfield's gritty, in-your-face style is uncompromising. If you're looking for a nice, clean movie filmed with a steadycam, you'll have to look elsewhere.
75
Chicago Tribune
It’s dumb but quick and dirty and effectively brusque, dispensing with niceties such as character.
75
Premiere
It's not the life-changing movie experience the intense viral marketing attention would lead you to think it is, but its decision to focus on ground-level humanism rather than epic disaster is what separates it from the pack.
75
When the monster shows up, pretty early in the film, everything becomes much more interesting, as it smashes buildings in midtown Manhattan like some sort of Rudy Giuliani, 9/11 nightmare.
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