CLOVERFIELD shows none of that, but instead shows the view of 4 of those anonymous people on the street. And I for one, do not want to see that kind of monster movie. I like the tried and true monster movie formula. If one goes into this movie thinking one will see anything like a traditional monster movie, just forget it. What you will in fact see is a claustrophobic, shaking jogging movie. That’s all the characters do, run from one spot to another. … The one scary scene is so obvious I don’t know how anyone could possibly jump. Then after that, the characters are pretty much totally out of any kind of surprise danger. … Just huge objects smashing and being blown up that we only see pieces of.

…Perhaps seeing a better copy of the movie would have improved my liking of the movie a bit, but I doubt it would have done enough for me to not be annoyed by the constant loser remarks made by the character holding the camera. There are hot girls in this movie, but there is absolutely no reason they still should be in the movie. The men should have absolutely insisted they go with the military rescuers.

…And then the ending is just that, an abrupt end.

X-MEN: THE LAST STAND [2006] review

Wow, this movie did NOT need to be made. At all. X-MEN: THE LAST STAND is just a disaster and totally turned me off due to its extreme violence and just plain malice and constant murder scenes. Then the script itself was murdered by the writer. I felt embarrassed for Ian McKellen to speak the lines he had too. Any script that has a huge musclebound bully calling a brave, but small teenage girl a “bitch” is just malice that doesn’t need to be made. I am writing this review over one week after seeing this movie, and I am trying to recall if there was even a single moment that made me feel the power of the X-Men…. I can’t recall a single event.

Every time Halle Berry as Storm walked on the screen it was just laughable. New characters were introduced very weakly and not developed at all. In the last stand why does it seem like there are only two real X-Men? Where are all the rest? This movie was just a disaster, but still not as bad as SUPERMAN RETURNS was. I really only watched X-MENT: THE LAST STAND because I wanted to complete the series, but if you find yourself in the same boat, I think it is better to just think the series ended after the second movie, don’t spoil it with this wasted third movie.