Had the opportunity to watch Super 8 over the New Years weekend and I was impressed for a stretch, then disappointed. The story is a smaller town in Ohio has some kids who are making a movie for a festival. Side story is one of the kids mom died in a steel mill accident and his dad is emotionally distant. It's pretty pointless, but they try to play it up (poorly I'll add). Kids wonder off at midnight to do some shooting (zombie movie) and witness a train get derailed by a guy driving a pick-up truck into it. On further investigation they see their middle school teacher drove the pick-up truck into it and in a recurring theme of completely defying logic, he's still alive. He tells the kids to say nothing to anyone and waves a gun at them. Kids tell no one and the Air Force rolls into town to start picking up the mess. People, pets, and metals start disappearing, you start catching flashes of a huge beast with multiple arms (4 I think) and the plot thickens. At the end of the day it gets ridiculous and silly at times, and the attempts at adding human feelings and such fail. It's still a pretty interesting movie with great special effects and for the first half, an interesting plot.
Bottom Line: 6.6 out of 10. It's worth seeing, but don't go into it with great expectations. It's really a well hidden monster thriller, but once the cat's out of the bag it goes downhill in a hurry.
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