"The first thing you need to get used to in Cloverfield is the potentially nausea-inducing shaky camera work, " said the San Francisco Chronicle's Peter Hartlaub.
Drew Goddard, who wrote Cloverfield and penned "Cabin in the Woods" with Joss Whedon, had drafted a script for the story, in which a high-functioning artificial intelligence turns against mankind and wages all-out war to wipe us off the planet.