STAR RATING: ***** Saturday Night **** Friday Night *** Friday Morning ** Sunday Night * Monday Morning
An alien spaceship crash lands in London, during which best mates Charlie (Noel Clarke) and Mark (Colin O' Donoghue) find themselves trapped in the titular holding bay. Charlie's on edge about his relationship with Shelley (Antonia Campbell-Hughes) coming to an end, but has no idea what's been going on behind his back. Meanwhile, the group find themselves being stalked by something that was on the crash landed plane, a military experiment gone terribly wrong.
It would have been nice for the British Film Industry to have a decent sci-fi/horror flick of it's own on it's hands, especially with a hot, still relatively new talent like Clarke in the lead, so in that respect Storage 24 is certainly ambitious in it's scope. Unfortunately, it's not successful. Far from it. For the most part, the film seems desperate to bore you to death, spouting out the usual Alien esque clichés, whilst drowning in a melodramatic sub plot involving a central love triangle. Some impressive creature effects at the end are possibly the best thing about it, but that's too long to wait and by then, really what's the point? Well worth avoiding. *
An alien spaceship crash lands in London, during which best mates Charlie (Noel Clarke) and Mark (Colin O' Donoghue) find themselves trapped in the titular holding bay. Charlie's on edge about his relationship with Shelley (Antonia Campbell-Hughes) coming to an end, but has no idea what's been going on behind his back. Meanwhile, the group find themselves being stalked by something that was on the crash landed plane, a military experiment gone terribly wrong.
It would have been nice for the British Film Industry to have a decent sci-fi/horror flick of it's own on it's hands, especially with a hot, still relatively new talent like Clarke in the lead, so in that respect Storage 24 is certainly ambitious in it's scope. Unfortunately, it's not successful. Far from it. For the most part, the film seems desperate to bore you to death, spouting out the usual Alien esque clichés, whilst drowning in a melodramatic sub plot involving a central love triangle. Some impressive creature effects at the end are possibly the best thing about it, but that's too long to wait and by then, really what's the point? Well worth avoiding. *