
In Lillian, Ohio in 1979, 13 year old Joe Lamb (Joel Courtney) is passing the summer holidays by helping his best friend Charles (Riley Griffiths) make a short film about Zombies. Alice Dainard (Elle Fanning) borrows her father's car and drives Joe, Charles and the rest of the gang, including Cary (Ryan Lee), a pyromaniac, and Ryan (Gabriel Basso), the leading man, to an old train depot to shoot a key scene for the film. Joe is in charge of make-up and sound, while Alice has been recruited to play the female lead. Utilising an on-coming train as 'production value' they start to shoot the scene, but Joe is distracted as he witnesses a truck drive onto the tracks towards the oncoming train, causing an explosive derailment. The kids barely survive and approach the truck to find their biology teacher (somehow alive) behind the wheel. He instructs them to leave immediately and to never tell anyone what they have witnessed.
Joe and his father, Deputy Jackson Lamb (Kyle Chandler) have been forced through circumstance to mend their distant relationship. Joe's mother was crushed to death in an industrial accident, called into work because Alice's father Louis (Ron Eldard), an alcoholic, called in sick. Unable to forgive Louis for his indirect involvement, tensions exists between the families. Following the train derailment, the military, led by the no-nonsense commanding officer, Colonel Nelec (Noah Emmerich), secure the crash site and fearing the repercussions of the lost cargo, attempt to make sense of the Super 8 film box left at the site. The children's desire to forget what they saw becomes impossible when a number of strange phenomena around town indicate that a creature is on the loose, made even more desperate when Alice is abducted. With no alternative but to bring in the 'big guns' the military decide to evacuate the entire town to a nearby Air Force base.
The films final third, following this evacuation, is disappointing. It begins to rely on jump-scares and quick flashes of the monster to create suspense. There were decisions that made no sense, justifications that served little explanation to the motives and activities of the monster and light flares that had no business. For a man whose monster in Lost was a giant puff of smoke (well, it may have become something more meaningful in the latter seasons), this really proved that J.J Abrams has few ideas on what to do with monsters.
With the delayed revelation of the antagonist resembling Jaws, the Cloverfield-like multi-legged creature escapes its transportation (in much the same way as the Dinosaurs escaped their enclosures in Jurassic Park) and has free reign over the town of Lillian. A number of strange occurrences; the disappearance of dogs all over town, the theft of appliances, and several human disappearances, send the town into a frenzy with no one to turn to but the Deputy Sheriff, like in...Jaws. Okay, so this does borrow from a bunch of films.
The kids all work great as a unit, and this is one of the best films centred almost exclusively on kids since Rob Reiner's Stand By Me. The written dialogue is believable (and funny), each of the kids have a unique and relevant personality and their chemistry feels completely natural. The strongest bond, of course, is between Joe and Alice, with Joel Courtney and Elle Fanning giving the standout performances (though I thought Riley Griffith was great too). Their love-story is genuinely warming, and the pair are really natural in presenting that first crush awkwardness. It remains resonant throughout the film, easily overshadowing the estranged father/son relationship that is ludicrously healed in the all-too-neat ending.
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