Its part of a trilogy. Yes you are correct that the first movie was handheld but 10 Cloverfield lane is supposed to be an addition to the chaos that was taking place in NY with the creature. And yes, i agree that if they had just left this as a stand a lone and left the alien part of it out i would of really liked it more. I was totally engaged with the movie until she gets out of the bunker. I have no idea what they have in store for the third so should be interesting.