Storage 24 (2012)
6/10
An alien love triangle......
3 May 2013
Warning: Spoilers
A plane crashes in London, and the cargo ends up in a storage warehouse, and it just happens that Noel Clarke has just split up from his girlfriend, who is sorting out her stuff from his stuff, and then there is the confrontation between them at the titular place.

While all the while there is an alien stalking the corridors, killing all the Brit bit part actors you recognise from other films. Like the bloke from the Business, and that woman from Fever Pitch.

Clarke is a great screen presence, but even though the film is nothing revelatory or new, Clarke puts in a performance that isn't menacing or familiar. Basically he's not playing the same character like he usually does, ala Kidulthood.

It's clear from the upstart who will survive and who will die, and when the little twist arrives at the beginning of the third act, some characters should just sign a death warrant.

You have the best friend who stabs you I the back, and then thinks about saving his own bacon, the obnoxious friend who is just rude, the random nutter who lives in the warehouse, and of course, the nobody who works there.

All fodder for the alien, but the character arcs really take the tension away from the film.

But like I've said, its a fun little low budget British movie, that never outstays its welcome, and looks good.
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