Dan Trachtenberg directs Mary Elisabeth Winstead, John Goodman and John Gallagher Jnr in this woman trapped in an underground bunker mystery.

Like its franchise “blood relative” Cloverfield, this is a flick you admire more in concept than actual experience. A nicely shot and edited, twisty maze for us and the ever impressive Mary Elisabeth Winstead to work out, John Goodman and John Gallagher Jnr both also excelling as the apparently untrustworthy pre-existing tenants of the trap. Potentially there’s a lot to love but I ended up merely liking it. For as the truth all unravels you suddenly realise the threads are all falling exactly where you’d expect them to, and it is pretty poor praise to say that when all hell does finally break loose it is exactly the hell you can already imagine from the trailer. For a film thats hook is the “unexpected” that proves a pretty jutting out barb to snag the viewer on. It also lacks maybe one midway set piece to be what I’d measure effectively tense. Maybe a rewatch with lowered expectations might help this all feel more than satisfactory once the credits roll. I’m willing to concede my own fault for wanting a great night at the movies when this is just a perfectly well made and OK one.

7