10 Cloverfield Lane proves to be really good, captivating and outstanding. A solid story, a brilliant cast (John Goodman's performance is highly praised with every movement and breath.) The confinement of the place, the paranoia and suspicion building up, the development of the story before reaching the climax captivate all senses. It combines different genres together: apocalyptic kind of science fiction and the tension of psychological thriller. Monsters of different kinds meet together to create a movie that will keep you attentive and alert until the last minute. Tension keeps going higher and higher until teeth -biting - knuckles moment actually happens.
The movie begins with Michelle gathering her stuff and leaving her boyfriend before crashing her car. She wakes up and finds herself chained to a wall in a concrete room in a basement turned into a bunker owned by Howard (Goodman) who claims that he saved her from the world upstairs that doesn't exist anymore. An outsider chemical attack or maybe an alien invasion has made the air poisonous and wiped out the earth; according to Howard, no one could ever survive this attack, and that is confirmed by Emmet, a survivor, who fled to Howard's bunker.
With her doubts and suspicions about what actually happens, Michelle and the viewer can't decide what to believe: is Howard telling the truth or is he lying? Is he just harmless odd fellow or some kind of sick pervert kidnapper? Howard is safe or he is creepily dangerous? A human or a monster?
The movie gets plenty of surprises for the audience that will keep unwrapping them until the final scene and when they think that the mystery is resolved, another one comes in. A well crafted image of the three characters is represented. They are shifty in their claustrophobic environment and horror and paranoia will engulf their seemingly camaraderie they are obliged to have. They struggle in their own ways to survive the dangers that lurk outside and inside as well.
Nice music tracks that go well with the situation and a perfectly built bunker to enhance in viewers a feeling of unease and a sense of being trapped.
10 Cloverfield Lane is a movie to be watched savourly. Because it has everything to keep your nerves on the edge. Adrenaline will boom. Highly recommended.
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