10 Cloverfield Lane Film Review

Finished watching 10 Cloverfield Lane directed by Dan Trachtenberg and staring Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Bradley Cooper, John Goodman, John Gallagher Jr. and Suzanna Cryer. The film opens up to Micelle (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) leaving the home that she shares with her fiancé Ben (Bradley Cooper) after having an argument with him. While driving down a long empty road Micelle suddenly gets into a  collision with a vehicle overtaking her leading to her waking up inside a doomsday bunker, with her leg handcuffed to the piping as the owner Howard (John Goodman) tends to her injuries. Michelle later finds out the she is not alone as the builder of the bunker Emmett (John Gallagher Jr.) is inside the food storage with a broken arm he got by trying to get inside after an attack of some sorts hit the area. Overall this was a good film as it uses the setting of the doomsday bunker along with the small cast extremely well as it allows for the film to get right into the core of the characters and their interactions between one another. The cast brings some stellar performances from the small personal character moments that help to develop the characters of Michelle and Emmett, to the range of John Goodman's acting as his character goes from a very anxious person to full on psychopath in a matter of minutes that brings over a lot of edge of the seat suspense. The prop and make up departments do an amazing job with the decaying pigs outside of the bunker and the look of the infected woman (Suzanna Cryer) as they look horrifying and very realistic. 7.5/10.