Cloverfield

** - For whatever reason, most modern monster-based horror movies have seemed to feel the need to try to lull the viewer into a false sense of security by forcing them to watch a bunch of unappealing characters party with each other for the first hour or so of run time. That’s how this film starts out. While the monster (finally) attacking and picking off the unrealistic champagne-swilling yuppie jackasses in this film is marginally satisfying, the movie as a whole is rather daft. And the end is pure crap.