Well Put Together

Rating: 7/10 (21 January 2017)

This movie was intelligently done and it had to be considering the setting. Just about the entirety of this movie takes place in a multi-room, underground bunker of about 400-500 square feet (rough guesstimate). When a film is limited in its setting to that degree it has a smaller margin of error for being watchable.
I had my doubts about this movie going in because of the word "cloverfield". My memories of the other movie titled simply "Cloverfield" were not good. Shaky-cam POV comes to mind and that is not my cup of tea.
10 Cloverfield Lane is shot more traditionally and they employed the services of a known actor in John Goodman. The movie is filmed completely from the perspective of Michelle (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), the main character. After leaving a gas station she gets involved in an accident just to wake up chained to a wall in a bunker. The bunker belongs to her captor, Howard (John Goodman), and he is trying to convince her that he has her there for her own good. Is he telling the truth or is he not? There are indicators that he is but then there are indicators that he is a nut case as well.
It is an intense movie. Michelle is caught in a quandary and her goal of getting answers and/or freedom require a lot of daring behavior. John Goodman does a stellar job as an enigmatic captor/savior. He is hard to read throughout the movie which makes him and the situation all the more confusing and scary. The movie was just really well put together.