‘Shadow In The Cloud’
Chloe Grace Moretz (who is really fantastic here) stars in his supernatural WWII thriller as Maude Garrett, a rare female pilot, who boards a flight from New Zealand to Samoa under mysterious circumstances with a mysterious package she has vowed to protect at all costs. The movie starts off almost as a radio play with terse dialog and economical scene setting. When Maude sees a gremlin (!) as she is locked in the plane’s Sperry and desperately tries to get the male crew to take her seriously, the movie truly kicks into high hear. It’s best to go into director Roseanne Liang’s pulse pounding sophomore feature knowing as little as possible because once the action starts, the film doesn’t waste a goddamn minute of what’s left of its gloriously taunt runtime.