Will They Seek Out Other Cloverfields?

Rating: 7/10 (30 June 2016)

I love John Goodman. I just watched Trumbo and thought his character piece was delightful. He can play those wacky, threatening, but endearing characters. Here, he is an unbalanced villain whose villainy trumps the real threat (whatever that is). I saw Cloverfield a few weeks ago and it certainly filled in some pieces, but whether you have seen it or not, it is worth the effort to watch Goodman explain to his two captives why they are so lucky to have this nut case looking after them. He has built a bunker, and an unfortunate young man and woman, who are clueless as to why they are there, become his "children" (sort of). Since they see early on that this guy is crazy, they realize they had better try to escape. Like the deranged father he is, he "punishes" them when they disobey. What is not stated until the end is what's out there. That's why we hang in there for a couple hours. I dropped my rating because of some pretty contrived stuff at the end (hokey, if you must know), but the acting is very good, and the movie delivers 90 percent of the time. That's pretty good these days.