So so so overrated....

Rating: 4/10 (24 July 2011)

In the summer of 1979, six friends spend their time making a zombie movie with an 8mm camera.
Joe Lamb does the make-up and he takes a liking to Alice Dainard who has only recently joined the group. While filming at the local railway depot, they see one of their teachers, Dr. Woodward, turn his truck onto the track and drive into an oncoming train which derails.
As they continue trying to make their film, they realise that an extra-terrestrial was being carried on that train and is now loose in the community...
What has happened to Spielberg just lately? usually something bearing is name should ooze quality, and when I read that this movie would hark back to films like The Goonies/Stand By Me/CEOTTK and many other movies like this, I was beyond excitement.
I saw the teaser and that was it, I was sold. And the film starts off great, The director knows how to write a good story, and how to do suspenseful, urgent set pieces.
The Train crash is one of the best things I have seen this year, and the cart moving is genuinely scary.
And then the film falls flat. And the delicious characters we were introduced to just get lost in the clichéd mix of silly connections that were pointless. 'stay away from that boy, because every time I look at him, it reminds me that i killed his mother', is one line that a character should have said, and then it turns into the more sentimental parts of War Of the Worlds.
It's one of the most disappointing experiences i've had at the movies, and what makes it worse is the ending. Why do directors insist on the coyness of love conquers all? Would he have really let his necklace go like that? I wouldn't.
Next time when you make a film Mr Abrhams, think of the rest of the world, I could almost smell the apples from this mess of a pie....