Rating: A

Rating: 9/10 (6 August 2017)

This is an amazing claustrophobic thriller with a major part of the runtime spent in just one confined space. Starting with the pros, I have to congratulate the director Dan Trachtenberg because this was his first feature film and it was brilliant, full of tension and suspense.
Then, the actors: all of them were great  John Goodman as Howard is perfect! You know that he did an awesome job when you spend the whole movie unable to figure out if he's really insane or not. In one scene, he may seem crazy, but in the next one he's completely normal and that makes us and our hero, Jessica, with no idea of what's true or not. Mary Elizabeth Winstead is also really great, probably her best performance so far and her character is definitely someone who you care for. Usually, in this type of movies, the hero is not really smart and does things that are nowhere near rational, but in this movie she is and she's ahead of Howard, most of the time.
John Gallagher Jr. plays Emmett and he also gives a good performance. However, his character was not as compelling as the others and that's fine since this movie concerned more Howard and Jessica. Still, he was in the moment of the movie where my jaw just dropped of how intense that scene was. This movie gives small hints along the way (book in a shelf, someone's former profession ) and, if you connect all of them, the ending will not come as a surprise (only if you've seen Cloverfield, which was a "prequel" to this film  I will talk about it at the end of the review and after my rating since it has a minor spoiler for 10 Cloverfield Lane).
The ending felt rushed, it's really abrupt and it can leave you a little disappointed, at first. After thinking about all the hints given through the movie, the sounds that were heard and some dialogues, you connect everything and it doesn't feel that fast anymore, so it actually worked for me.
————————-MINOR SPOILER WARNING————————-
In Cloverfield, there was a giant monster destroying everything and, at the end of the movie, there's a flashback where, in the background, you can see a dark point falling from the sky (really easy to miss). That was a satellite (Howard's former profession involved working with satellites) and it, supposedly, woke up the Cloverfield monster.
Knowing this, the end of 10 Cloverfield Lane will make more sense to you and, in some way, will smooth away the rushed ending.

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