K-SCORE: 89
Director: Dan Trachtenberg
Writers: Josh Campbell, Matt Stuecken
Starring: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, John Goodman, John Gallagher Jr., Suzanne Cryer, and Bradley Cooper as Ben
“The final product is wonderful.”
Spoiler Level: Minor
A wild mew has a appeared!
This film gives me hope. To be perfectly honest, there were parts where I was a touch bored, saying to myself, come on, get to the point at the end, but after getting to the end I neither want to fault those duller bits along the way nor do I even want to talk about why the end is spectacular. I just want to watch more of it. A movie like this takes commitment. Furthermore, the writers and director, and probably the wild mew herself, have, like me, seen way too many movies to want to endure the same shit over and over again, so went all-in on something different. The final product is wonderful.
My biggest complaint with 10 Cloverfield Lane is missed potential, which is always a good sign. Like Cabin in the Woods, I could have watched way more within this universe. It’s not quite as bad as Cabin in the Woods, where I could have watched iterations of that premise a hundred times without getting bored, but I easily could have watched two or three full length movies that follow mew’s character after the main events of the film. Let’s hope that a sequel comes out soon and that most of what happened in this one isn’t mentioned as the plot twists into new realms of craziness.