SHADOW IN THE CLOUD (2020) ¢ ¢ ¢
D: Roseanne Liang
Chloë Grace Moretz, Nick Robinson, Beulah Koale,
Taylor John Smith, Callan Mulvey, Benedict Wall
This starts out with a clip from an instructional cartoon about gremlins on an airplane, and goes on to be . . . a live-action movie about gremlins on an airplane. It stars Chloë Grace Moretz as a World War Two aviator who boards a B-17 just before takeoff, carrying a highly classified package that she insists is top priority. The crew - all men - give her shit and confine her to the gun turret under the fuselage, which turns out to be a good thing when they're attacked by a Japanese fighter and she shoots it down. Eventually you find out what's in the package and the movie loses its tenuous grip on anything resembling reality. If the story's not based on a comic book, it should be. Moretz makes an appealing action-figure heroine.
