Packed with a slow, boring story and absolutely no mystery

Rating: 2/10 (9 July 2016)

10 Cloverfield Lane is the follow-up to 2008's much superior film Cloverfield about alien monsters invading God's green earth! Now why I say the first one was much more superior was because it was faster in terms of pace and action, the mystery and suspense was much better, and the story had more atmosphere of hopelessness and intrigue. Here in the 2016 follow-up, the story follows three characters trapped in a house with chaos going on in the outside world which we never see and the whole time you're sitting there thinking "Ok, anytime now for the action. I don't care how deeply torn these characters are or what their motivation is. I want to see some action" or "how many more minutes until this movie ends?" The director bit many parts from current filmmakers in this one. From the beginning, I noticed Zack Snyder's 2004 "Dawn of the Dead" opening so I wasn't really excited there. Then James Wan's "Saw" was also thrown into the mix so the mystery just couldn't be more obvious: a girl is trapped in a house...but why!? No surprises or thrills in this one. The ending was a bit laughable. So don't waste your $2 rental at the Red Box. You're better off renting Kindergarten Cop 2 to keep your kids busy.