Cloverfield meets E.T

Rating: 7/10 (20 June 2011)

I want to start of by saying that I, even though I know I should never have, had huge expectations for this movie due to the people involved with it and all the hype for it. Therefore I now have mixed feelings about the result of the movie. Whilst Abrams and Spielberg have proved themselves to be masterful many times, it seems like this co-work panned out a little bit out of focus. It's like someone in charge couldn't agree on if they were doing a E.T sequel or a Cloverfield sequel.
Super 8, to me, is at it's best when it has that mysterious Cloverfield/Lost tone and not the E.T storytelling where characters literally tell every answer to every question you're having as a viewer. Whenever that happens in this film, it ruins the excitement for the mysterious plot and main villain's purpose. It's like someone forgot that a well-done mysterious movie is exciting because it's mysterious, however that happened.
It's not a bad movie, it's enjoyable, but it could have been so much more if they would have left parts of it mysterious and unsolved.