Max Landis, a screenwriter involved in the molestation scandal, author of the witty series "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency" and the inventive "Chronicle," as well as the excellent action film "American Ultra", Last year he managed to work with the New Zealand filmmakers and wrote a very funny story about a brave girl pilot confronting a gremlin destroying plane on which she and seven brave pilots are on a secret mission on the Pacific front in 1943.
The trailer looked very interesting and promised a very funny mix of the famous "Twilight Zone" series, an airtight thriller (99% of the action takes place inside the bomber) and a war drama, but it seems that from Landis' original script Roseanne Liang only kept the first twenty minutes and then it was so much fun that you couldn't call it anything but a farce.
While Chloe Grace Moretz's character is trapped in a balloon tower, everything is very cool. Suspense, acting, interesting camerawork and editing, and the film has its own atmosphere, but then the neglect of the laws of physics begins, logic cracks at the seams and the final battle with the monster is very hard to take seriously. Like the half an hour of screen time that precedes it, during which the realism of the first quarter of the film goes to hell...
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You decide for yourself whether to watch it or not, and it might even appeal to fans of movies about strong women who easily walk through burning huts and stop horses in packs, but it seems to me that the filmmakers lost their sense of proportion and could have made a much cooler movie in this setting, rather than a simple B-movie for one evening.
So far, the top contender to win the "Crushed Potential of the Year" nomination.
