REVIEW:
Here’s the thing. This movie is definitely another, much worse version of 10 Cloverfield Lane, It’s as if it takes the skeleton of that movie, and then strips it down to the basics of just three characters (technically that one was about only three characters too,) in a house. Whereas that movie was in a cool bunker underground, this one is simply in a house. In other words, the setting is not so important to the story, ask it was there. But that hardly means anything in a movie that is about character, like this one..
The story is about these two crazy characters who kidnap and capture a high level CEO, who they are convinced is an alien. That premise itself is pretty original. It’s the holding people prisoner because you think there is wild end of the world stuff happening outside that is right out of 10 Clloverfield Lane.
The prisoner -kidnapping stuff is fine. It mostly deal with conversations between Teddy and Michelle. Some of the most interesting elements involve the third character, Don, who is Teddy’s mentally challenged cousin. Don is caught in between the two other characters, being manipulated by Teddy and not agreeing with all that he does, yet still going along with it.
The movie is definitely interesting, but it certainly isn’t anything vastly original or creative that is worth getting excited about. It’s a lot of back and forth without actually getting anywhere. And then we arrive at the ending. I won’t give anything away, other than to say that it is so extreme, it actually makes the movie worse. On the one hand, it’s certainly not boring or predictable, but on the other, it’s a little too much, and it doesn’t work at all. It’s dark and disturbing, and maybe it’s meant to be comedic somehow, only it’s not. The movie is just okay, and probably would have been better had not the ending dragged it down.