Shadow in the Cloud

furious_iz

January 7, 2021

6/10

Honestly I don't know why I enjoyed this film. It is dumb, really really dumb. There are so many bad American accents from the New Zealand cast, the stunts are snort out loud ridiculous. But somehow, this film has a visual style and creativity that at times lift it above it's B Movie and proud station. I would be VERY selective about who I recommend it to. I really had fun watching and shaking my head at the silliness and would absolutely watch it again

SWITCH.

January 11, 2021

5/10

Perhaps the real problem is that, as we've seen with films like 'Victor Frankenstein', 'American Ultra', and 'Bright', Max Landis just isn't a particularly good writer. “I write scripts the way a lot of people play 'Angry Birds,' he once quipped. As you can imagine, not all of those scripts need to be filmed. At the same, Roseanne Liang rises to the challenge of her one-location war movie, making a hunk of airborne junk feel downright claustrophobic and staging episodes of bonkers action with an…

If you enjoy reading my Spoiler-Free reviews, please follow my blog @ https://www.msbreviews.com I consider Chloë Grace Moretz (Greta) one of the best actresses of her generation. I would be pretty surprised if she doesn't get at least an Oscar nomination in the next ten years. While it's true that her choices don't always end up being good movies, she's rarely the one to blame when things don't work out. In Roseanne Liang's film, she's undoubtedly the glue that holds everything together. Mo…

Kamurai

June 19, 2021

8/10

Great watch, would watch again, and do recommend. Sometimes it is a really great thing to go into a movie with extremely low expectations, and I certainly went into this thinking it's going to be boring. That's its a WW2 courier movie, but it really is so much more. It honestly feels like this is a collection of stories that are all stitched together in a fantastic way. It's modular storytelling, and while it's a trend I've been noticing in the beginning of the 2020's this goes above and…

r96sk

March 17, 2022

9/10

This might be one of the most entertaining things I’ve ever seen. Simply stupendously sensational stuff. <em>'Shadow in the Cloud'</em> is bonkers, I had a blast watching it. There were no rejected ideas in the writers room, that’s for certain! I'm glad to see that this hasn't been slaughtered via reviews; at least not to the level I was expecting. It’s utter madness and I’m fully here for it, the amount of craziness they fit into less than 80 or so minutes is nuts; the special effects - asid…

CinemaSerf

March 28, 2022

5/10

I had quite high hopes for this - I liked the premiss. A WWII bomber flight has "Maude" (Chloë Grace Moretz) secreted in the lower gun turret. She has a secret cargo - but what could it be...? As they travel, some of the rather asinine crew become suspicious of her, her package and when they begin to see things; when things start to go a bit awry with the plane - then the crew must brace themselves for quite a surprise! Sadly, though - the execution of this isn't up to much. The acting is poor, …

Sierbahnn

June 16, 2026

7/10

There's something on the wing! As a long-standing fan of the Twilight Zone, it is always refreshing to see a movie-take on one of classic stories. We have of course had The Truman show, The Box and the Sound of Thunder, but this one takes on Nightmare at 20,000 Feet from 1963, which has had its own remakes in the different series, starring different people, but to expand the narrative and make it into a movie is fun. To then lock the main protagonist in a box for an hour and only have the ot…