"If you build it . . . "

Rating: 8/10 (13 March 2016)

" . . . THEY will come," Hollywood teaches the main tenet of Quantum Physics' String Theory in 10 CLOVERFIELD LANE. People say even a broken clock is right twice a day, and 10 CLOVERFIELD LANE suggests that every paranoid schizophrenic psychotic serial killer is reigning as a One-Eyed King in some Land of the Blind. When I lived near New Orleans in Tangipahoa Parish, folks like John Goodman's 10 CLOVERFIELD LANE character "Howard" were a dime a dozen. Certainly The Crescent City will be Ground Zero for most Alien Invasions, and any shape-shifting chameleon-like Extraterrestials will come to us in the guise of someone like Howard (obviously, intended to pay homage here to HOWARD THE DUCK). The religion of Karma contends that you reap what you sow, and your chickens eventually come home to roost in the form of Bad Karma. 10 CLOVERFIELD LANE shows what kind of just desserts a chick gets from running out on Bradley Cooper (who poignantly plays the voice of "Ben" in this story).