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  • Actors: Michael Stahl-david, Lizzy Caplan, Mike Vogel, Odette Yustman, Jessica Lucas
  • Directors: Matt Reeves
  • Format: Anamorphic, PAL
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Paramount Home Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 9 Jun 2008
  • Run Time: 81 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (259 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0014E9174
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 3,782 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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One of the first things a viewer notices about Cloverfield is that it doesn't play by ordinary storytelling rules, making this intriguing horror film as much a novelty as an event. Told from the vertiginous point-of-view of a camcorder-wielding group of friends, Cloverfield begins like a television soap opera about young Manhattanites coping with changes in their personal lives. Rob (Michael Stahl-David) is leaving New York to take an executive job at a company in Japan. At his goodbye party in a crowded loft, Rob’s brother Jason (Mike Vogel) hands a camcorder to best friend Hud (T.J. Miller), who proceeds to tape the proceedings over old footage of Rob’s ex-girlfriend, Beth (Odette Yustman)--images shot during happy times in their ex-relationship. Naturally, Beth shows up at the party with a new beau, bumming Rob out completely. Just before one's eyes glaze over from all this heartbreaking stuff (captured by Hud, who's something of a doofus, in laughably shaky camerawork), the unexpected happens: New York is suddenly under attack from a Godzilla-like monster stomping through midtown and destroying everything and everybody in sight. Rob and company hit the streets, but rather than run with other evacuees, they head toward the center of the storm so that Rob can rescue an injured Beth. There are casualties along the way, but the journey into fear is fascinating and immediate if emotionally remote--a consequence of seeing these proceedings through the singular, subjective perspective of a camcorder and of a story that intentionally leaves major questions unanswered: Who or what is this monster? Where did it come from? The lack of a backstory, and spare views of the marauding creature, are clever ways by producer J.J. Abrams and director Matt Reeves to keep an audience focused exclusively on what’s on the screen. But it also makes Cloverfield curiously uninvolving. Ultimately, Cloverfield, with its spectacular effects brilliantly woven into a home-video look, is a celebration of infinite possibilities in this age of accessible, digital media. -Tom Keogh

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    2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
    1.0 out of 5 stars much ado about nothing, 11 Jan 2010
    Buy or borrow a camera. Call all your friends, knock together the bare bones of a script over coffee or a few beers, then get into character and start filming.

    You'll produce a better movie than this.



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    2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
    1.0 out of 5 stars Price says it all, 31 Dec 2009
    Waste of time, energy and money. It's a story of friends captured in the middle of war with a monster in New York. That story is presented in the most annoying way you can imagine, recorder with a camcorder carried by one of them. It's 50% of shaking, 25% of rotated screen, and the rest is something you can actually look at but it's incredibly boring (first 31 minutes).
    Seriously, it'd be perfect if it was a real story, but since it's a fiction, it lacks everything that would support the story. What is that thing, where it came from, what happend to it, etc...
    Really, borrow it from someone if you have to watch it.
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    2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
    4.0 out of 5 stars Huge monster, short film, 2 Oct 2008
    By Pundit "OEJ" (England) - See all my reviews
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    Whatever else that can be said about CLOVERFIELD, one thing's likely to be consistent among words used to describe it : it's different. I've just watched the DVD and I reckon I could trash it, or I could say it's "OK" or I could even rave about it. That's not to say I can't make my mind up, or that it depends on what mood I'm in. It's just that pretty much every description of it can be taken seriously, positive or negative, and they would all count. There is no definitive verdict for this film.

    The most talked-about aspect (I suppose) is the apparent use of a mobile or hand-held video camera for the entire length of the film. At first I found it a nuisance, and the best I could say is that I eventually tolerated it, but there's no doubt in my mind that I would have preferred a 'normal' type of film recording. The end credits were something of a highpoint for me because at long long last the picture wasn't bouncing about all over the place. And I think that when the length of the film is quoted as 81 minutes, this includes those credits in that figure. So no, I didn't like the reality-seeking hand-held filming style, but at the same time I was deeply impressed by what the film-makers managed to achieve in spite of it. Of course it's a scary-monster film and the un-named leviathan at the centre of it all would easily kill King Kong, Godzilla and every monster you can name with a single flick of its......well, I'm not sure what you would call them - hands? Claws? It was pretty scary to be fair, and all the CGI and technical effects were of a very high standard. I just wish that camera wouldn't jiggle about all over the place! But I accept that it was this specific decision that probably makes Cloverfield a whole lot better than it might otherwise have been, because it does create a sense of realism, that the viewer is right in the middle of the action at all times.

    Although I watched it alone, I would imagine that at the cinema most of the audience would have gone "Huh?" at the end, because it was so sudden, so unexpected and I was left with the impression that there could have been at least another 15 to 20 minutes of the same, so I felt a bit short-changed there. It's a hard film to submit a reliable, objective opinion about, and I can now understand why one reviewer titled his summary 'Marmite'. You need to see it yourself to form a judgement; unfortunately you might hate it but that's the chance you'll have to take. Just as likely you'll enjoy it and be considerably impressed with it, but the least likely outcome is one of sitting on the fence. My main regret is that a lot of cash must have been invested in all of the special effects but as a viewer I didn't really see everything as clearly as I would have liked to, or for as long. Peter Jackson's cinematically loving portrayal of KING KONG of a few years ago was the opposite but of course it was flat and pointless despite that (or maybe because of it). With this film, the sound quality was a weak point but I have to admit that overall it was dramatic and involving - even if the motion-sickness left me with something of a headache afterwards.
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    3.0 out of 5 stars Good advert for hand held video cameras
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    3.0 out of 5 stars Wasn't expecting too much.
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    2.0 out of 5 stars Nauseating nonsense
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    1.0 out of 5 stars Don't even THINK of buying this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    What a load of CRAP. The Sun gave this 4 stars, Empire gave it 5, News of the world gave it 5, they MUST have been watching a completely different film to me. Read more
    Published 2 months ago by Susan H. Hicks

    3.0 out of 5 stars Shortest film since Laurel & Hardy
    Ok movie - about the shortest film since Laurel & Hardy though! Hand held stuff not a problem for me but it took ages to get going, and the plot really was pretty thin - more an... Read more
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    1.0 out of 5 stars Shaky Camera Work Makes a Bad Movie Worse
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    1.0 out of 5 stars what utter tripe
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