Review of 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016) by Ianmustard — 09 May 2016
A large part of my dissatisfaction with this film comes with the fact that this movie attempts to be a kind of disturbing psychological thriller; then becomes annoying product of Hollywood. The first evidence of this comes from the overtly dramatic music at the most inappropriate times throughout the film.
In places where I wanted to feel a sort of suspenseful silence, there were these swashing of overpowering a overt strings that, rather than building suspense, completely took me out of the moment. The culmination of this was in the movies final moments.
I yearned for a cliffhanger, or something that was less blaring with her escape, perhaps ending with the view of the helicopter, and the audience not knowing whether it is aliens or humans. But instead it had to make it BLATANTLY OBVIOUS what the MORAL STORY OF THE MOVIE IS by yelling it at the audience's faces.
No tact, no subtlety. I had hopes for this film and was hugely disappointed.
This review of 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016) was written by Ianmustard on 09 May 2016.
10 Cloverfield Lane has generally received positive reviews.
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