Disappointing

Rating: 5/10 (6 August 2011)

I been looking forward to this for over a year now and although I enjoyed it the film was disappointing. Yes I thought the alien was Clovy and was a little disappointed when it wasn't. It seemed too much of an homage to that idiot Spielberg and as such the ending was poor instead of brilliant like Cloverfield. Some good thrills in it but ultimately left me feeling a little cheated. The Goonies did OK and the acting wasn't that bad. Some of the dialogue and set pieces reminded me of several Spielberg films that without the SE were utter crap. Plot holes abounded but you have to suspend belief a little for these things. The ending seemed rushed as if they had ran out of money and seemed a bit strange as the alien was doing all this stuff and in the end suddenly did something totally different. Not enough creature for my liking even if it was hardly Clovy. Does not live up to it's hype and was neither brilliant nor sucked and another summer failure but all said and done a solid 7 but it should have been a 10.