The winter is a strange time for film. Every year films get released and they tend to fall into one of three categories: bad movies the studios don’t really care for you to see, great movies that the studios are gambling will do all the business in a slower time of year, and then the middle ground of perfectly serviceable winter action flicks. You’re probably aware of those serviceable action flicks I’m referring to – they often star Jason Statham or Gerard Butler or Liam Neeson, and while most of them aren’t great, very few of them are outright bad.
Cold Storage is very much in this third category. An science fiction action comedy in which a deadly alien fungus rages out of control in a self storage facility where an unsuspecting Georgina Campbell and Joe Keery work. The storage facility was previously a government base, and Liam Neeson shows up as the government agent tasked with containing the situation because he’s the one who put the fungus there in cold storage in the first place.
The plot, such as it is, is a cross between The Thing and Invasion of the Body Snatchers, but with a dash of humour. Director Jonny Campbell does everything he can with screenwriter David Koepp’s screenplay, but unfortunately the film never manages to escape comparisons to better films. He does manage to find a few moments of humour, but that also means that, effectively, all of the moments that could be scary in this horror comedy are reduced to moments of gross out humour instead of scares. This, in and of itself wouldn’t be a problem, however there aren’t enough of those moments either.
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“Cold Storage” Makes for a Decent Winter Off-Season Watch | ForReel
