No one is looking for you.......

Rating: 8/10 (17 April 2016)

A young woman wakes up after a terrible accident to find that she's locked in a cellar/war shelter with someone whom has spent the majority of their adult life preparing for doomsday.
He insists that he saved her life, and that the world outside is uninhabitable following an apocalyptic catastrophe.
Uncertain what to believe, the woman soon comes to realise that the real danger maybe on the inside, and that she must escape at any cost.......
No matter how many times the argument comes up regarding the title, and it will for a few years to come yet, there is no way the makers should have included the Cloverfield name in the title.
I can understand why they did, to generate box office and to try and recreate that secretive element that Cloverfield did so brilliantly before it's release.
But by calling it what they did, it cleverly hides some of the problems that the film has, because with this title, the viewer is more interested in what is actually on the outside, rather than what is going on in the inside.
If it was called something like 'Basement', or 'The Bunker', it would have just been your atypical, no surprises thriller with a kooky ending.
Now I think the film is wonderful, it's tense from the upstart, and the acting and characters are wonderful, it's just the fact that as soon as we meet Goodman, you know he's not the full ticket and has some ulterior motive toward Michelle, that is ultimately, sinister.
And not one point during his performance does Goodman have any normality with his character. Yes we should be led to believe that he has lost his family due to the occurrences outside, but then with this title, we know something has happened outside, thus taking away an element of surprise.
Other than that, it's a classic tension riser of a film. The scene at the dinner table where Michelle is trying to get something from Howard, is one of the highlights of the film, and Winstead puts in a wonderful performance.
Why she hasn't had more prolific roles is beyond me, she has some wonderful screen presence.
Goodman is intense to the point of almost farcical, you just know he is going to explode, but you'll never know whether it's going to happen then, or a little later.
The ending is good, that's all i'm going to say.
So it's a wonderfully tense film, with some really creepy elements, but just don't expect anything too left-field.