Cloverfield is a found footage giant monster movie. Most of the found footage focuses on a going away party for Rob, who is leaving his girlfriend (Beth) behind to travel to Japan. At his party, a friend films testimonials as chaos breaks out on the news. At first, people believe it was just an oil tanker crash near New York but soon, the decapitated head of the Statue of Liberty comes bouncing down the street and we have ourselves a full-blown Kaiju attack. Rob and a small group from the party try to make their way across the city to Beth's apartment, where she is trapped.
My favorite sequence in the movie is when our intrepid band decides to walk the subway tunnels rather than deal with the giant monster stomping across the city. The giant monster leaves little "fleas" from its body that are the size of tigers. The subway sequence features lots of good night vision shots as that is the only way the group can navigate. Once they come across the fleas, things get real.
Cloverfield is a fun little monster movie. The found footage approach was a novel way to explore a Kaiju attack in that we don't get any cutaways to the White House or some scientists trying to figure the creature out (even though the military is well represented). By the time there is a ticking clock over the whole plot, we have gotten to know our protagonists pretty well and see what things are like on ground level for them.
If you haven't seen it and you like giant monsters, check out Cloverfield. It has no real relation to 10 Cloverfield Lane, if you have seen that, besides trying to take a big sci-fi movie and making it personal.
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