Wonderful acting, great direction

Rating: 8/10 (21 May 2016)

10 Cloverfield Lane
I am a fan of John Goodman. From The Big Lebowski, Argo all the way to Speed Racer. Goodman shows that he can go full into a character and make the audience forget that he was Dan Conner in Roseanne. He plays a prepper with almost stereotypical military experience who saves the female main character: Michelle.
Michelle is played by Mary Elizabeth Winstead who you might remember from Scott Pilgrim vs. the World or maybe the 2011 rendition of The Thing. She is probably one of my favorite young actresses and is completely underrated as one.
Emmett plays the third wheel to the John Goodman and Mary Elizabeth Winstead show. Acted by John Gallagher Jr. and I couldn't put my finger on who he was because of the major beard he had going for this movie. He does an okay but nothing special performance. To see how good he can act, watch a TV show called The Newsroom.
I'd never heard of Dan Trachtenberg until this movie but with JJ Abrams producing his film I could only assume there was faith involved and with almost zero promotion it wanted to go on merit alone and maybe word of mouth. The direction was great, sometimes the lack of music allowed for more suspense actually.
Verdict: Great suspense. Little things matter, pay attention. Dan Trachtenberg has a great road ahead.