Super 8 Movie Reviews

It's inventive, warm-hearted and refreshingly entertaining. A throwback to those edge-of-the-seat sci-fi adventures which Steven Spielberg specialised in during the late 1970s and early '80s, Super 8 turns out to be quite a surprise packet. Writer-director Abrams (Mission: Impossible III) avowedly uses the plot as a peg to hang the bloodless action scenes. Aided by an outstanding ensemble of young actors and the eye-dazzling cinematography of Larry Fong

Super 8 delves into a series of events that befall a small Ohio town after a gang of kids, at the wrong place and the wrong time, witness a horrible though life-changing train accident. The accident's fallout leaves the town engulfed in curious and spooky phenomena like the mysterious disappearance of dogs and various electronic appliances. With the military making a prompt intervention though carrying out its operation with utmost secrecy, the suspicions

Set in the late 70s, 'Super 8' is a gripping thriller from 'Lost' creator JJ Abrams, that follows a bunch of school-going friends who accidentally capture footage of a major train crash while shooting a low-budget zombie film. Something escapes from the wrecked train, and pretty soon the army is crawling all over town. Then the plot goes all 'ET' on us. Its title referring to the old film format used by home-movie enthusiasts, this nostalgia-soaked adventure

There is something odd about watching a movie called Super 8 digitally projected onto an Imax screen with 12,000 watts of gut-rumbling Dolby sound. J. J. Abrams, the writer and director and presiding pop-culture guru-geek, is surely aware of the incongruity. You might even say that it’s the subject of the movie, which makes much of the technological gap between the present day and 1979, when this story of kids and monsters takes place

It would be too easy to call Super 8 a tribute to early Steven Spielberg movies, such as E.T. and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Named after the film format that introduced nearly every filmmaker that lived in the '70s (including Spielberg and, subsequently, Abrams as well) to movie making, it also owes a fair amount of its aesthetic to modern monster movies like Cloverfield as well as the earliest M Night Shyamalan films. The tone of the film

Produced by Steven Spielberg, Super 8 has an alien, a group of children and a small town. However, an E.T. it isn't. The children here are into making slasher movies on 8 mm film, dressed up as zombies, with fake guns, fake blood and even fake nails on which people get fake impaled. t's during one such shoot, after midnight -- it's 1979 and apparently parents don't notice when kids frequently sneak off for long periods -- at a railway station that they witness

The Three Musketeers had tremendous potential, but lost the plot somewhere. Director Paul W S Anderson has a confused take on the period drama. While he tries to stay faithful to the Alexander Dumas classic, he gets carried away by the stunt potential to justify the price of the 3D version. So if you are a bit perturbed to see Milla Jovovich (looking like a multi-tiered wedding cake in her ornate gown) flying though laser beams, now you know

The Super 8 review Biz rating: 1.5/5 stars. What’s Good: The kids’ performances; the exciting suspense in the ...