Over the weekend I had a night where nothing was expected of me so I decided to scroll through my local theaters movies. There were a couple I considered but after chatting with my husband and nephew (who was staying with us) we settled on seeing 10 Cloverfield Lane. Now, this movie is not linked to or a sequel of any other that I know of. When seeing the trailer, both before we chose a movie this weekend and while watching Deadpool, I thought it looked spectacular.
The trailer opens with an average looking family playing board games, doing a puzzle, eating dinner, but then drifts into scenes of a girl trying to escape a bunker. Watch the trailer here: 10 Cloverfield Lane
When I first saw this I thought it was going to be a crime or horror film, neither of which do I watch all that often. To my surprise it was listed by www.Fandango.com as a Sci-Fi Thriller. That is exactly up my alley, so I was ready to love this film by the brief (and non-informative) summary, movie category and the awesome trailer.
Today, I am still unsure if I left feeling the same way.
The movie was missing some major plotting for me and at times was dull in its effort to keep you guessing. You're right one second, think you're wrong the next and then right again. It was frustratingly pulling at my intelligence, not to mention it was really, really loud. The noise level was distracting because it didn't really add to the movie like you would anticipate a thriller to do.
And don't get me started on the Sci-Fi portion.
Just a hint of warning, if you are a sci-fi buff and you love your movies to be up to par in this subject, I would skip this one. The movie is only sci-fi-y the last 15 minutes-- if that. That part truly frustrated me, because I was expecting some serious world building, that didn't happen.
On my grand scale of awesomeness this movie rates at a 5.
My rating stands on the fact that it does keep you guessing (even if you're constantly being pushed back and forth), the cast (John freaking Goodman, people) is pretty awesome and the movie had potential. It just didn't live up to it.
I recommend waiting for this to come out on DVD/Blu Ray since at home you can control the volume and if you don't like it, it only costs you a few bucks.
I do not recommend going to see this if you are expecting killer plotting/lots of sci-fi/fast-paced action. This is not the movie for you.
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