‘Cloverfield’ more than just ‘The Blair Godzilla Project’

Cloverfield opens with no credits, just a creepy and cryptic military caption on a recorded video—coincidentally, the one we’re about to watch. We meet Rob (Michael Stahl-David), a late twenty-/early thirtysomething Manhattanite gearing up to take a job overseas (in Japan, of all places). Meanwhile, his brother and [...]