Super 8 - 6.5/10
(potential mild spoilers)
Another
movie I went into without knowing anything about it, although I gather it was
quite hyped up. Thankfully I missed that – I hate hyped up things, they rarely
live up to it. So, without the hype, my judgement of this movie is ‘good.’ Not
amazing, but by no means bad or even average. Not disappointing, as I had no
expectations to begin with. I enjoyed it. But not quite as much as The Losers. So
that’s why this is sitting at 6.5 instead of 7. Good, but not quite really good.
On
the surface, Super 8 looks like a kind of ‘scarier E.T.’ A group of children
are filming an amateur zombie movie at a railway station when a train crashes
and something emerges from the
wreckage. (The kids are filming on an old Super 8 camera which gives the film
its name, but this is not a found-footage movie. As far as I’m concerned that’s
a good thing, but there may be some folks out there who are disappointed,
thinking this is ‘Cloverfield for Kids’.) The alien then proceeds to terrorise
the small town, kidnapping people and taking bits of metal with it in order to
rebuild its spaceship. Everyone is afraid of it, the army is hunting it, but the
alien just wants to go home.
