Entertaining despite all the plot flaws.

Rating: 6/10 (21 June 2018)

The child actors in this film are fantastic, especially Riley Griffiths as the 'director' Charles Kaznyk. It is essentially two stories in one: the kids making a film for a contest and trying to find production value; and the quest by the military to capture an escaped alien. Although brilliantly done, there are a number of flaws. The train crash sequence is absolutely brilliant, but it seems too incredible that no one got hurt during all this. Also, despite all the chaos and explosions, the camera is still found exactly where they left it. And with containers and debris raining all over, their car is still left intact - not a scratch! This is simply not believable. And then they simply drive off - the tires would surely be punctured by all that debris.
I found the ending also too much of an E.T-ish happy ending. The creature in 'Super 8' is a destructive killing machine, yet at the end the sentiment is "ahh, he just wants to go home". Uhm, not believable. It would have been great to see a climatic battle at the end with the military killing the monster. The ending is not suited for this film. Nevertheless, it is still an enjoyable, action packed, thrilling adventure.