Review of Super8

Review of super8

Super8 is a film directed by J.J. Abram’s who has directed many different types of films, the ones that I have heard of are mostly ‘star trek’ and Mission: Impossible III, the genre for ‘Star trek’ is  action, adventure and sci-fi and Mission: Impossible III is action, adventure and thriller, most of his movies are a bit similar.

The main character in the movie in my opinion would be Joel Courtney who plays ‘Joe Lamb’ in the movie, however all of ‘Joe’s’ friends Charles,Preston,Martin and Cary are important as they each helped him to save Alice and solve the mystery behind everything that’s being strange after the crash with the train and truck in the beginning. Gabriel Basso plays ‘Martin’, who has been starring in the television program called ‘The Big C’, he is a television actor as well as a film actor.

The genre of this film is thriller and sci-fi, this movie makes you jump when the alien comes, this is because of the sounds that have been used throughout the movie, The sound is very powerful which makes the audience seem involved with the movie as it tells the audience that something is going to happen, an example of this can be in the beginning of the movie when the train crashes and everything explodes. This is aimed at children and teenagers mostly because the children in the movie are the main characters which relates to the whole movie.

Super8 is about a child ‘Joe Lamb’  whose mother passes away and has no close relationship with his father, his group of friends are trying to make a horror movie with zombies, there all meet up at midnight and go to the train station, while recording their scenes a truck comes from nowhere and crashes into the train, The train explodes everywhere and burns, there all go to the truck to see who it is  and see that the driver was their teacher from school, who was also an air force scientist, later on the air force get involved with the whole situation. After the incident weird things start happening to the town, people who live there, the dogs and the belongings of others start to disappear. However during the movie Alice gets captured by the alien when she runs away from home because of an argument with her father, later on the air force evacuates the whole town because of everything that has been happening. Joe finds out that Alice is missing and he takes his friends and goes back to school while creeping out so he is does not get caught, Joe later on realises that he might have seen the alien in the grave yard while he was visiting his mother’s grave, Joe and Cary both go to save Alice from the alien. While running away when finding Alice, the alien grabs Joe and Joe starts to talk to it like the air force scientist did, The alien puts down Joe and goes away to build his ship, it attracts all the metal things and also tries to take’s Joe’s mothers pendant which he has kept since his mother passed away, with him all the time, he pulls it towards him and then he lets go, the ship leaves and so does the alien.

What Went Well- I enjoyed the movie as it was interesting because the alien was not showed until later on in the movie, it gives the audience a  mystery of what the alien will be and looks like, It made me jump when the alien would appear or when it would abduct the characters throughout the movie, as it gives us  some sort of suspense.

Even Better If – It could have been better if the alien was made different because I thought it looked like a spider which was original, it could have been something different which could have shocked the audience.