Cloverfield: *** (out of a possible **** stars)

Sort of the new decades Blair Witch Project, only better and with a much larger budget. The commercials were intentionally and understandably vague, but even after watching the film there's still a lot of unanswered questions, questions that various websites have attempted to answer with a variety of different theories. All in all I thought it was a very clever film, and there were certainly plenty of tense moments. I'm still not sold on this "through the lens of the camera" way of filming, however. Granted, it does elevate the suspense by giving you a feeling of actually being there, but when the characters are running (which is often, in this case), the footage becomes so shaky it's hard to concentrate on what's going on. This is the first film ever that actually made me physically ill - both my wife and I became nauseaous trying to follow the jerky camera work. Definitely not for viewers who suffer from any kind of motion sickness, but for those who don't I strongly recommend that you check it out.