The Cloverfield Paradox (2018)

Such a frustrating disappointment

Great Film overall

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

I'm surprised it took those long. A little prayer doesn't hurt. That is not what I expected. Ready a weapon at least. "People from Kansas" :)This is not gonna be good. That is cool caulk. "My arm helped us find the Earth" :)

The story is a complicated, complex stitching of several sci-fi tropes filled with quantum mechanics, physics and a lot of science stuff I don't know enough about to be impressed or aggrevated. I do get enough of what Data or Seven-Of-Nine tells me on Star Trek to think "that makes since. And I love 'The Big Bang Theory'. Other than that I take a movie's premise on face value when watching sci-fi. So I was intrigued with the story here on theoretical merit alone.The acting in "The Cloverfield Paradox" is lukewarm. The cast is a collection of notable talent, yet most performances either fell a bit flat or seemed two-dimensional. It has some pretty good moments that seem to happen surprisingly and randomly during some dialog scenes, and some of the action moments are cool. Alot of the time though you can almost hear the word "action". Not really but...Now I dug the special effects. The settings had an almost revamped "2001 : Space Odyssey" feel and the CGI is theatre quality. The last third is really the only indication this is a Cloverfield movie, and the ending is one you know is coming way in advanced, but it is a cool ending. I kinda felt I was watching more of a prequel explaining the real story about what went down that caused the first film to happen. Overall the film is a mixed bag but as disjointed as it seems it has some entertaining moments.

The last half hour of the movie I just wanted the main character Hamilton to effing die. Her alltime stupidity wasn't bearable anymore, as well as that constant crying just jumped my nerves. Biggest waste of time.

Cloverfield was fine. The "sequel" was really dull and kinda totally unrelated to the original. So, here we have the second "sequel" and it's equally silly. (Seriously, was it that hard to generate sequels related to the original?)If you care to enjoy this film, even as a badfilm worthy of a night of cheap beer, you absolutely must skip past the first 20 minutes. It is here where they set everything up, and it's so ridiculous that it makes watching the rest of the film difficult. The premise has to do with the Earth "running out of energy", so we send a bunch of crazed scientists to space to perform some vague experiment that is likely to rip open the space/time continuum; which (oh no, spoiler!) it does. From here on out, I kept scratching my head and saying to myself things like "well, if they didn't send these looneys up there, things might be fine" and "wait, so all the other issues on Earth weren't enough concern? it took a vague energy crisis to make them launch these clowns into space?" Et cetera. And if you're still watching, you have to be drinking something. The dialog and the characters are just crap. No beating around the bush here! It's a decent looking SciFi with absolutely nothing going for it except it's name... Avoid.