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Norf
Suffers from the same problems as the TV show Lost. Just keep showing wierd and strange stuff and never explain anything.I kept thinking of Event Horizon. I didn't have the same problem with that film because the events happening in that film make sense in the universe that the story was taking place. In Cloverfield we don't know the rules and nothing seems to be addressed.
TL
Abhorrent, ridiculous and disastrous. Go and (re)watch Alien or The Thing instead, and restore faith in the art of cinema and science fiction horror.ntan
Man I'm really conflicted about this movie. TBH it might be the only movie I've ever watched that I've loved and hated. I loved watching it but there's a lot of things I hate about it.- Chris O'Dowd's lines were really unfunny and his character was annoying
- There's a lot of moments that don't follow a classic rule of screenwriting: "If you give a character a gun, he has to fire it at some point". One example of this was
- Which is better? Seeing Vader and Luke fight and having Vader say he is his father? Or Luke bringing it up in a conversation with Han that Vader is his father? There were so many exposition-heavy moments where we could have just seen the thing happen instead of having it explained to us.
- Related to the last point, the thing that angered me most was not utilizing this amazing concept they set up.
- A lot of really dumb decisions by characters. Particularly the one where
- I'm all for intelligent sci-fi but the story needed to be clearer. It didn't answer any questions about this universe and muddled the timeline immensely.
- I feel like they had good footage but the editing was so messy and all over the place. It was so rushed.
But I really liked the score which people are criticizing, and I loved the premise. But the ending is also problematic. I haven't quite figured it out.
Emiam
7/10Incessantly exciting. Good length. But ... when will it end?
pawgchamp
A generally good movie, but I can see the plot being very confusing as to how it fits in with the rest of the movies if you didn't keep up with theheat_
Are all those unchangeable silly mistakes and goofs essential to the genre in this movie as well? Yes.Still watchable? Yes to that as well.
Siskoid
After 10 Cloverfield Lane, I was stoked for another installment in the pseudo-franchise. The Cloverfield Paradox is not as successful as the films it follows, however. It could have been. It's certainly got a good, recognizable cast (headed by Gugu Mbatha-Raw, and including, among others, Daniel Brühl, David Oyelowo, Zhang Ziyi, and Chris O'Dowd), and as every Cloverfield film has been in a different genre, making it a science-fiction/horror flick is fine. Unfortunately, while it would have you believe the science is sound, there's too little explained, especially when it comes to some of the body horror elements. Physics has gone mad, fine, but it's just one damn thing after another, and much of it feels like random craziness. And here's the other problem: Red Robot decided to annex the film into the Cloverfield universe during production, which may have worked fine in 10 Cloverfield Lane because of its structure, but you can FEEL it here. It's not a great "origin" for the alien invasion, and the scenes added to make the connections are ill-fitting. And no one on the station actually calls it Cloverfield? It just feels weird. It's certainly watchable and moderately exciting, but I don't like it as a Cloverfield movie. Of course, it could be argued (successfully) that not as many people who have seen it if it hadn't been marketed as one.demagogo
weakest out of the trilogy, but not a trainwreck at the end of the dayikkegoemikke
“If you go… you and I will survive.I’m afraid if you don’t …
No one will.”
“Cloverfield” was a unique film. Lots of fans were looking forward to a sequel to this amusing found footage monster film. The sequel “10 Cloverfield lane” came 8 years later. It didn’t feel like this film had anything to do with the initial film. Till the end of the movie. It’s clear this one was situated after the events from “Cloverfield“. And then suddenly this Netflix release pops up from nowhere. “The Cloverfield Paradox” tries to explain why all that shit started to happen in Manhattan. Yep, again it’s about prequel and sequel stuff. And there’s nothing I hate more than prequel and sequel nonsense. It’s obvious this movie tries to connect with the original “Cloverfield” films, as you can clearly see on the movie poster.
However, this film is right up my alley. A SciFi horror on board of a sophisticated space station with crew members trying their best to stay alive. I got a soft spot for such movies. The only problem is that they don’t need to defend themselves against cruel and bloodthirsty space aliens. It’s a paradox that causes peculiarities. And they caused it themselves. They are sitting on top of a gigantic particle accelerator that, if it works decently, should provide the earth with unlimited amounts of energy. I didn’t understand how that works at all. And I doubt whether the makers of the film understood it themselves. What happens afterwards is hilarious on the one hand, and scary on the other. And it was still hard to grasp what was going on.
Because the particle accelerator failed to work, they end up in another dimension. Earth is gone and the most absurd events start to happen on board of the spaceship Cloverfield. Before they realize it, they find a teleported person behind a panel. An amputated arm is crawling around. Worms disappear and show up somewhere else. And it turns out that the gyro (a kind of compass) has disappeared. And it’s also found again in a not so obvious place. The arm turns out to be very helpfull as well. It reminded me of Thing from “The Adams Family” and the severed hand from “Evil Dead II“. Sounds pretty bizarre, doesn’t it?
Eventually I had the same feeling about this film as with “10 Cloverfield Lane“. They both seem to be totally self-contained films that were given a small adjustment at the very last moment in order to be linked to the phenomenon “Cloverfield“. Both the film from 2016 and this one had a different film title initially and were given a variant with the term Cloverfield in it. Was it a panicky decision? They feared in both cases that it might cause a financial hangover? And was the link with the film, with the most original marketing ever used, a way to create a similar curiosity?
I wasn’t knocked of my feet by “10 Cloverfield lane“. I even think they should have released this follow-up under the title “The God Particle” and omitted any reference to the Cloverfield universe. As a stand-alone film one could have criticized what the film is, instead of what the film wanted to be. Very bizarre, but the film itself has created a paradox. Despite everything, I was still amused by it.
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Rene Narciso
Most of the actors do a pretty good job, but this is ultimately a very disappointing movie.The first one was a scary deconstruction of Godzilla, the second one was a surprisingly effective psychological thriller, this one is just blah. Hope the next one will be better.
sunanoonna
The Cloverfield Paradox fails to deliver explanations regarding the Cloverfield universe while also failing to deliver its generic space horror slasher plot. The pseudo-science is so confusing that one wishes the events from the last movies were left alone as mystery. Moral of the story: You can't just stick the name of a popular franchise to a turd, shoot a couple more takes to mock consistency and deliver it to the masses. Underwhelming and disappointing. 3/10Last year's space horror Life made a bigger impression on me. I would recommend Coherence (2013) to those who enjoy the multiverse narrative.
filmistruth
Dimensions collide, causing a ripple through the solar system - and in the screenplay.Enter: crippling exposition, various plot holes and unexplained variances, multiple ticking time bombs, an overwhelming score, wasted acting AND MORE!
Skip this space junk - it adds nothing to this Universe.
DisneyStitch
This movie seriously reminded me of an older film with some very similar parallels called Sunshine made back in 2007. This is a wacky film. It's biggest flaw is that it doesn't explain enough to keep the audience going. You can certainly play the game of stringing your audience along with tidbits of information but if you don't reach a certain level or allow them to work it out themselves then it doesn't pan out. That's the issue here. It also suffers a bit from budget issues which you would never guess based on the detail of the space station set. All of the scenes taking place on Earth seemed lacking, and at times the dialogue seemed totally unrealistic.thekure23
What an adrenaline rush! I absolutely loved it. I don't know if hype is clouding my judgement, but I think this movie was very well executed, and though it has it's flaws, is a very worthy entry in the Cloverfield universe.Not flawless, but a welcome new sci-fi favorite in my book.