Cloverfield

Fresh from successes with “Lost” and “Alias” J.J. Abrams has delivered a barnstormer of a movie with “Cloverfield” as 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. Taken from the point of view of the footage from their video camera, the film is a document of their attempt to survive the most surreal, horrifying event of their lives. With its accompanying internet hype campaign and a cast of relative unknowns “Cloverfield” gathered a great deal of momentum before it had even hit the big screen and it was deserved. A fresh look at the Godzilla disaster movie, “Cloverfield” is a modern vision of some of mankind’s ancient fears, and this time we are in the thick of it with them!