It tries so hard not to be a cliché but ended up exactly like one anyway but great effort though. Hurrah.
I already knew that this is an alien invasion movie just by looking at the poster and a glimpse of the trailer, hell I didn’t watch the trailer, or at least I didn’t want to because I needed this movie to surprise me.
It did surprise me, and that is because I didn’t expect this one to give birth to a movie franchise specially when we are already drowning in all of those post-apocalyptic, end-of-mankind material movies these days. They did anyway, and what’s worse is it looks like we’re gonna get some more.
Acting was brilliant by the way, the whole thing makes you so uneasy, and at the beginning, the movie succeeded in making you scratch your head on what the hell is going on until you finally get what’s happening and then it drops a whole jar of vinegar to your stomach.
Okay, so I’m disappointed. The first half of the movie is well done when we still don’t know what’s going on, and frankly, we didn’t deserve the answer. The whole thing would have been so effective is she really was just kidnapped and been told that the world has ended and minus the part of the plot where the world actually ended, then this movie would be a great one. Okay I’m more than disappointed, I hated it.
It’s just like any other slasher movie where the villain chases you around with a knife then the main character makes her escape then the villain dies. I’m sick that I fell for the advertisements of this film. Bringing in that JJ Abrams everywhere it went, I feel so humiliated.
Yes, 10 Cloverfield lane is the address of where horrible things have happened and that’s all you need to know. Don’t watch it.
Grade: 2 Stars