Storage 24 - A cheeky little number

We all know that Alien was `the daddy' when it comes to these sorts of `monster-munching' movies. You have your alien/mutant/werewolf/whatever, chasing around a load of humans who are trapped in a spaceship/laboratory/missile silo/whatever, until the humans are suitably depleted enough to luckily beat the beast.

Storage 24 conforms to this template. My question: so what?

I read once on the internet, when someone was comparing George Lucas' (commercially unsuccessful) `Willow' to the (critically-acclaimed and money-spinning) Lord of the Rings franchise, they said: Obviously Lord of the Rings is a better film, but is it fun?

Storage 24 is not a classic film. But, in my opinion, it IS fun.

It never takes itself too seriously. The characters are just about well-formed enough to be enjoyable and the monster is suitably horrible. Therefore, it pretty much has everything you can want when you're picking a monster-munching movie to eat popcorn to.

If you want something deep, classy and serious - go elsewhere. Suspend your disbelief... and enjoy.

NOTE: if there was an Oscar for `best use of yapping dog toy,' Storage 24 would win hands down. And probably again the next year, too.

7/10 if I woke up on Groundhog Day and had to watch this again, I could live with that