Great movie, but pay heed to the cautions that you might throw up.

SYNOPSIS:  Coming from the viewpoint of young New Yorkers with a handheld camera (evidentally with an amazing battery life), it's a "eyewitness" account of a gigantic bizarre monster attack on Manhattan.  

PROS:  The concept of the handheld camera fake eyewitness accounts didn't work for Blair Witch, in my opinion, but I think this time they got it right: unlike Blair Witch, yes, they had a script (some of which is kinda cheesy), and they had a lot of special effects.  Which you're going to need when you have a beheaded Statue of Liberty.

CONS:  It's going to be one of those "either you love it or you hate it" movies.  The "covenient" catching of all the important things by the camera is a little too perfect at times, which ruins the illusion if only for a moment.  And, of course, the nausea from the camera motion.  A lot of people aren't going to be affected by it, but I was.  Not even halfway through, I felt pretty miserable.  I felt like I was going to chuck right up until I went to sleep.  Never did, though, so I consider that a "win" on my part.  And the end was kinda lame.

OVERALL:  Don't come into the theater expecting any explanations, or any actual plausible reason on how this funky looking monster just came out of nowhere and started tearing up the city.  It's a very narrow viewpoint we're looking through here: if the characters don't know it happened, then you don't know.  You're going to walk out with a lot of questions that you're not going to have answers for, and that's the point of the movie.  If you can accept that, you can enjoy this movie.