I’ve finally watched Cloverfield after dodging spoilers on the web for seemingly forever! After looking forward to it ever since the first enigmatic teaser and I really enjoyed it! I understand that it probably doesn’t have a huge mass-market appeal but JJ Abrams rocks, the basic idea of showing only uncut footage from a video camera found in a disaster area is really cool. A lot of people in the audience tonight really didn’t like the ending, but I love that it stayed true to that core idea and didn’t switch to a voicever/military briefing/collage of newspaper articles and news stories/or whatever you might think of as an explanatory ending.
The 1st person perspective showing us bits and pieces of the whole puzzle instead of relying on the normal formula of cutting back and forth from the scene of the disaster to shots from the Pentagon, the White House, local authorities etc. Things like seeing the authorities’ reaction when they realized that one of the main characters had been bitten but then not showing us more than a glimpse of the consequences is brilliant. Of course I still would like to know more; where did the thing/things come from, what happened to it, what happened to New York etc. I don’t think I would like to see a sequel but something like a novel that expanded on this would be great. To stay with the basic idea of storytelling it could consist of several 1st person accounts from different parts of the government, the military, news journalists and other people caught up in the event.
I won’t speculate on what the monster was, what exactly happened etc, check the entry on IMDb instead and every possible theory is already there. 
My rating is 4.5 of 5 stars!
[...] I watched Cloverfield earlier tonight, you can find my review here! [...]