djchabot-140-37567 I watched all three of the Cloverfield movies in less than a week, and maybe that was key to my enjoyment. The first I saw on Comcast, the second on Amazon, and the third on Netflix. All three can stand alone and also add to the overall story. I loved all of them, and especially this one, as it was a prequel of sorts to the other two! The ending of this movie just blew me away. It shocked me, like only a rare great ending can. I can hardly wait for the next Cloverfield movie.

Jez Lewis Given a free night to watch the first film on my own since I was unemployed for a while, I recalled the one I could not in all good conscience have removed from my watchlist. The reason being that I had left my wife to watch it to the end while I, in drunken stupour, slept from maybe 15 minutes in. 30 minutes in on my second viewing, I now admire my post reemployment euphoria induced inebriation judgement. If I am pleasantly surprised at a later juncture, I am not above admitting I was wrong.

Master FX Master ZX I'm not into the Cloverfield franchise, so maybe i could be missing some stuff. However that doesn't excuse this movie. Not only is very confusing for its "plot" and "themes" neither of them become well established or executed.The movie also has a tonal & genre dissonance, it doesn´t know what it wants to be, a horror, Sci-fi, fantasy, thriller or what ever, I know nowadays movies tend to be mixed towards genre but this is ridiculous. The acting is some of the worse i've seen, we already don't have characters but tokens and pawns for lazy screenwriters, but the line reads go from cringy to absolute atrocious.The main lead actress has the same expression for pretty much the whole movie, some weird thing happens and she continues with her mopey face. The rest of the cast continues the same way.But the worst aspect is definitely the pretentious philosophical elements in the film, they come out of nowever and are used in a contrived way to expand the time of the movie.Boring, stupid and just plain silly. Thank god this a streaming film and no one has to pay to see it in the big screen.

ASouthernHorrorFan 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.