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I feel like I must be missing something, because positive reviews are everywhere online. And after 14 pages of arguments about 9/11, I'm confused.
It's a monster movie whose monster isn't interesting. I think the producers need to reseal their xbox 360 games and return them, because that's where this monster ought to have stayed. Its random larvae that fall off are just corny.
I don't know what I should have expected, really. The entire premise is "This is just another monster movie, but have you noticed that people use cellphones and youtube now?" That really is it. There's nothing else.
I laughed out loud when the character said, "This is important. People will need to see this." Oh, please.
This movie fails even as a mindless monster movie. It's bad internet porn filmed during an earthquake. Someone shakes a camera for an hour, there are LOUD NOISES and then by the end, there's no one left, just puddles of bodily fluids. That's engaging entertainment?
By the time it cut to the millionth clip of footage from Coney Island with "I had a good day," I wanted someone to be punished for making a movie out of this much compressed failure.
