What’s that coming over the hill? Oh wait its just another J.J Abrams monster movie loaded with mystery. And to be honest , its something he has had a lot of practice at over the years. Where Super 8 differs from Cloverfield is that it works quite well.
Set in 1970’s America Super 8 tells the story of a group of thirteen year olds making a zombie movie. While out on a night time shoot they witness a train crash. But something is wrong, the cargo of the train is guarded with high secrecy and slowly the plot unfolds to reveal that what was on the train has gotten out and isn’t too happy. Like Cloverfield, Super 8’s main draw to get people into the seats has been a promotional run drenched in mystery. What’s on the train? What does it want? Effective yes, but the problem arises when the inevitable reveal comes somewhere round the hour mark. With these films it will never live up to the viewers expectation. But within saying this Abrams has developed as a director and kept, for the most part, the film about the characters. Its tried and tested, but if you don’t make the audience care about the characters they just won’t care about the film. Spielberg is attached as producer and the films does have a very Goonies feel about it. Which isn’t a bad thing but its been done, and been done better.
Still it’s a good movie, verging on great. (If it wasn’t for those obnoxious and altogether pointless lens flares every five seconds.) It tends to get a little too E.T. esque towards the end and loses its humour somewhere in the middle but the cast are great (It’s even got that little Arian boy from 7th Heaven all grow-ed up, don’t pretend that you don’t know which one I’m talking about .) , the script is good and the nostalgic feel to it makes it a damn good watch in my opinion. Life changing no, but what do you want on a rainy Sunday afternoon, and lets face it, those are the movies you’ll always come back too.
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