Review of Cloak & Dagger (1984) by Michael G — 25 Apr 2014

This is one of those movies I'd seen as a kid and have been tearing my hair out trying to remember what it was called in the decades since. Made long before Home Alone and the glut of Home Alone wannabes of the nineties, this film takes the premise of a kid going up against international criminals very seriously. The danger is real, the criminals are competent and brutal and perfectly willing to shoot a child in broad daylight, and people do die over the course of this story, one at the kid's own hand.

It's tense, even frightening at times, and if you spent your childhood growing up on those aforementioned Home Alone wannabes as I did, this film is a welcome relief.