I think the only reason I was excited about the original Cloverfield movie is because I was still in full-on LOST obsession mode at that time. Obsessing over the Slusho website and looking for easter eggs and JJ Abrams clues to the LOST universe. Being honest after the Lost hangover Cloverfield was a shitty found-footage movie with no actual story. It's just people running around scared and shit blowing up with an allusion to some kind of monster that's from somewhere. Nothing is explained. Go figure.
Then years and years later this movie 10 Cloverfield Lane comes out. Mild residual Lost tingles drew me to this one. It was actually a pretty good psychological thriller. John Goodman does a great job. But it didnt have to be part of Cloverfield to be good. If anything it brings it down to the level of the first movie. It doesnt help explaining the questions from the first movie in any way either... or if it does it didnt matter and no one cared.
Now with the help of the Superbowl this new movie Cloverfield Paradox comes out of nowhere straight to Netflix. Of course I watched it hoping for some kind of conclusion to the mysteries from the previous movies and at the very least a decent space movie. I kinda got neither. This movie is like Event Horizon with no scary parts and no clear narrative on why the crazy shit is happening. For example in Event Horizon you know that there is a sentient evil that's taking the crew's fears and manifesting them to torture them. You understand that the ship opened a gateway to hell and that's the reason for these experiences that happen. In Paradox it's clear that they merged with another universe and the stupid impossible science doesnt even matter. Jensen being there is about the only thing that makes sense. The worms inside dude (the worms period really), the whole arm thing, the water suddenly filling the airlock, the magnetic wall... the friggin monster that is the namesake of this entire supposed series' existence has no logical reason for being on Earth. If they had said firing the energy cannon could cause random fluctuations into different universes then maybe. But there were incidents that clearly seemed like they happened to specifically prevent the crew from their plan to start the cannon again to course-correct so to speak. Was the ship alive and aware of their plans and was actively trying to stop them? Because that is how it felt. And didnt make any fucking sense. That Chris O'Dowd guy is in it too. Who's a comedy actor and his parts are comedy but this isn't a comedy which adds to the shittiness and overall lack of believability.
What the fuck was the point of the weird plot line with the husband and the little girl? This felt like a side story crammed into the main story just as a way to show an underground bunker like in part 2 of this trilogy. If it felt like they tacked the Cloverfield name on a movie that was already written, it's because it was. I read an article that says exactly that. And with Paradox it was so haphazard and shitty that they pulled a Superbowl Surprise so there would be no bad reviews before it was released.
I really wanted this to be good. It had the potential to be. It's an interesting idea but they fucked it up.
Dont watch this.
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