SummaryFive young New Yorkers throw their friend a going-away party the night that a monster the size of a skyscraper descends upon the city. Told from the point of view of their video camera, the film is a document of their attempt to survive the most surreal, horrifying event of their lives. (Paramount Pictures)
Directed By:Matt Reeves
Written By:Drew Goddard
Cloverfield
Metascore
Generally Favorable
64
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Generally Favorable
7.2
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
70% Positive
26 Reviews
26 Reviews
19% Mixed
7 Reviews
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11% Negative
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100
A dazzling experiment that paid off immensely, this is cinematic pleasure at its purest. One caveat: If they ever make a sequel, we’re taking two stars back.
83
Cloverfield, a surreptitiously subversive, stylistically clever little gem of an entertainment disguised, under its deadpan-neutral title, as a dumb Gen-YouTube monster movie, makes the convincingly chilling argument that the world will end -- or, at least, Manhattan will crumble -- with a bang and a whimper.
User score
Generally Favorable
74% Positive
393 Ratings
393 Ratings
20% Mixed
105 Ratings
105 Ratings
7% Negative
36 Ratings
36 Ratings
Oct 13, 2025
10
One of the best 'found footage' movies ever made, placing viewers in the shoes of the faceless multitude who are subjected to the horror of a devastating attack.
May 23, 2025
10
An excellent film that kept me gripped throughout! I loved that sudden change in film once the monster arrived. I also loved the subway scenes. Great acting, great storyline. I'd watch it again and again!
75
Cloverfield is an exercise in realism that lacks reality's broader and richer context. Or, put another way, the experiment is artful, but it ain't art.
75
Cloverfield's gritty, in-your-face style is uncompromising. If you're looking for a nice, clean movie filmed with a steadycam, you'll have to look elsewhere.
63
Much scampering, yelling, quaking and crying is required of the actors, and they acquit themselves well enough, even with oozing fake wounds and prop rebars piercing their shoulder blades.
50
Mind you, I don't begrudge the creators of even a junk-food movie like Cloverfield the fun they had demolishing New York one more time.
30
Cloverfield is a relentless, I-thought-my-eyeballs-were-bleeding exercise in visual disorientation.
Jul 17, 2021
10
Best found footage-movie of all time. There is quite nothing like it. The atmosphere is incredible! It's not for everyone but if you don't mind the camera shaking you are in for a treat!
Jul 11, 2023
6
Give me more clover and less Rob and Beth, AND NO HUD. Also they all should’ve died well before the end, Beth literally was impaled with rebar and they got in a helicopter crash, very unrealistic for them to survive this. TL:DR I love big monster, hate Rob and Beth.
Apr 25, 2021
6
Comes across as a supernatural Blair Witch Project set in the city but falls rather flat.
There are some good edge of your seat moments and the tempo is high but story is thin and highly predictable.
Jul 12, 2020
3
With all the hype that was applied it bombed hard with me terrible acting all around.
May 31, 2020
3
Ainda não entendi muito bem o proposito desde filme. Os personagens são terríveis; a ligação entre eles mal existe; o plot é fraco e não dá a motivação necessária para o filme; o romance entre o casal não cola e toda a tentativa da edição de fazer-nos engolir aquilo é no minimo triste; os efeitos especiais não são bons o suficiente para carregar a trama; toda imersão, que a câmera na mão devia causar, não existe; os diálogos são ruins e nem um pouco reais, junto com a reação de cada personagem; os deus ex machina aqui rola solto e nada, absolutamente nada, nos dá um motivo bom pra continuarmos assistindo. Na realidade, porque de tanta gente interessante naquela cidade, o roteiro escolheu justamente eles para que nós os acompanhemos. O que há de especial neles?! Sendo assim, eu pergunto: qual o ponto?
Production Company:
- Paramount Pictures
- Bad Robot
- Cloverfield Productions
Release Date:Jan 18, 2008
Duration:1 h 25 m
Rating:PG-13
Tagline:Some Thing Has Found Us
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Awards
Golden Schmoes Awards
• 1 Win & 7 Nominations
Visual Effects Society Awards
• 5 Nominations
Scream Awards
• 5 Nominations
