Cloverfield (2008) revitalized the giant-monster genre with its mock-camcorder account of space aliens tearing up Manhattan, but the folks who produced this knockoff for Columbia Pictures have completely missed the point, recycling the earlier movie’s cardboard plot but discarding its jerky stylistics in favor of the usual elephantine FX sequences. The premise is nearly identical: hip young people party in a high-rise penthouse overlooking downtown LA, and the next morning they awaken to discover alien spacecraft hovering above the city.…
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