My Wife and I were excited to go see Cloverfield. The trailers and pre-release marketing looked excellent. We are both Lost fans so were looking forward to something special. Whilst in NZ on the last leg of our moneymoon we found a cinema and watched it. Keep in mind that we put off seeing it to save ourselves some money before our wedding, we might have seen it in the Cook Islands but their little cinema seems to focus on family movies - so we waited for New Zealand. Well. It was rubbish. Utter, utter rubbish. Blair Witch style cinematography was way art house, but stupid. Miami Vice style would have worked just as well without the motion sickness and constant annoyance at the intentionally lowsy camera skills. The monster seemed cool, but there were only a few good solid shots to enjoy him/her and absolutely no information whatsoever on where it was from etc. I understand what the movie was trying to do. But the angle is for Dendy Cinemas not for mainstream cinemas. My recommendation? spend your time watching land before time sequels instead.