The Cloverfield Paradox
Paramount Pictures | Release Date (Streaming): February 4, 2018
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Jes1310Feb 12, 2018
The history in cloverfiels Paradox is paper thin. and more times than often, the paper is shredded or torn to pieces. Things are happening for no reason what so ever, and that just becomes annoying. There are some cool old school scifiThe history in cloverfiels Paradox is paper thin. and more times than often, the paper is shredded or torn to pieces. Things are happening for no reason what so ever, and that just becomes annoying. There are some cool old school scifi references to Aliens and other classics, but that just isnt enough to keep the movie together. Only other positive is that is explains why the Kaiju starts roaming our earth.… Expand
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EludiumQ36Feb 17, 2018
Not bad, not great, decent production values and some unexpected humorous bits. There's several "oh come on!" moments which is why the film gets dinged, but it's fine for what it is - that is, a free studio-quality film for no extra charge onNot bad, not great, decent production values and some unexpected humorous bits. There's several "oh come on!" moments which is why the film gets dinged, but it's fine for what it is - that is, a free studio-quality film for no extra charge on Netflix, so relax and enjoy.… Expand
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DvorkaMApr 1, 2018
First on how I judge movies, if I enjoy them at least purely from entertainment point I vote 7, if I am indifferent about them 5 and intra/extrapolete the rest yourself.

This movie I enjoyed solely on the grounds of how bizarre andFirst on how I judge movies, if I enjoy them at least purely from entertainment point I vote 7, if I am indifferent about them 5 and intra/extrapolete the rest yourself.

This movie I enjoyed solely on the grounds of how bizarre and unpredictable it is. It has the production value, looks and feels of A movie, but ... plot is not the word I am looking for, because for plot you need at least somewhat linear narrative, but that is not what is happening here. But again that is not necessarily bad. This movie reminds me of life. Not the movie Life, actual life.
There is a plan right, you want to accomplish something. And you do your best, but then life happens and the "plot" of your life shifts, it no longer follows the original plan, but still it progresses, and then another thing happens and another and another. Suddenly you have to be reminded of what was original plan because you are dealing with something else entirely.

This is the feel I got from this movie. Sometimes funny, (hilarious even thank you Chris O'Dowd), sometimes drama (thanks Daniel Brühl) and sometimes borderline psychological horror. It is not focused enough to be a fluid movie experience but in my opinion it is still worth the look.… Expand
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FelipePedro07Aug 27, 2022
Very meh !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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ozymandias79Feb 7, 2018
This movie overextended itself into too many areas and wasn't very successful in any of them. Nothing was explained very well. If Cloverfield Paradox didn't try to be Event Horizon, it might have been better.
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peterf28Jan 1, 2020
Too many nig nogs starring, also a german actor. Please stop **** up the sci-fi genre.
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Voodoo123Feb 20, 2018
+Interesting cast
+Nice effects work
-Unoriginal plot -Weak tie in to cloverfield franchise While The Cloverfield paradox throws around some interesting ideas, it is sadly a below average sci-fi. Set on a doomed international space station,+Interesting cast
+Nice effects work
-Unoriginal plot
-Weak tie in to cloverfield franchise

While The Cloverfield paradox throws around some interesting ideas, it is sadly a below average sci-fi. Set on a doomed international space station, TCP fails to commit fully to its dramatic, scientific or horror elements instead existing somewhere in between it all feeling hollow as a result. Had it not had the cloverfield attachment I might have expected less going in.… Expand
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RefallOct 29, 2018
Terrible in every aspect, with the exception of some reasonable acting work in protagonist roles. I did not care for this film in the slightest.
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MacheteDontTextMar 4, 2018
5.6, are you fking kidding me?? This was the best sci-fi I have seen in years. How can anyone say its stupid or that is has plot holes when it throws all the rules out from the get-go...Sure its not a masterpiece for the ages, but its way5.6, are you fking kidding me?? This was the best sci-fi I have seen in years. How can anyone say its stupid or that is has plot holes when it throws all the rules out from the get-go...Sure its not a masterpiece for the ages, but its way more interesting and entertaining then most. Must watch.… Expand
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CineAutoctonoFeb 16, 2018
"The Cloverfield Paradox" was a bad movie, uniquely disrespect the essence of Cloverfield, the story is a creepy and scandalous, although it connects well the first tape, and the performances are the worst I've seen.
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angelsanzcorreaFeb 12, 2018
Good premise, promising first part, great cast and decent production values. Then there's the terrible writing which, specially towards the end, sadly ruins the movie.
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mustang8Sep 30, 2020
Like all things coming from J. J. Abrams, The Cloverfield Paradox is about as tasteful as a loaf of stale bread. Haphazardly struggling to cover the film's Lack of depth, lack of logic and shallow character design through unnecessarilyLike all things coming from J. J. Abrams, The Cloverfield Paradox is about as tasteful as a loaf of stale bread. Haphazardly struggling to cover the film's Lack of depth, lack of logic and shallow character design through unnecessarily abundant use of CGI that does little to have the viewer wonder about the "technologies of the future". Also, significant effort has been put to marketing this film towards Asia, even going the length of including a character that replies to others' English lines exclusively in Mandarin. Better spend your time with a film that doesn't try so very hard to appeal to all the masses out there.… Expand
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DrachmaliusFeb 4, 2018
This is just a decent sci-fi movie, ties to Cloverfield are pretty minimal. As a movie that exists to explain the first Cloverfield, this is merely serviceable. But the themes it deals with, the plot, and the characters are all why I'm here.This is just a decent sci-fi movie, ties to Cloverfield are pretty minimal. As a movie that exists to explain the first Cloverfield, this is merely serviceable. But the themes it deals with, the plot, and the characters are all why I'm here. Without getting too heavily into spoilers, there are similarities to Alien where most of the action takes place on a space station. But the movie goes beyond being simply a space monster flick and deals more in shades of grey than I first expected it to. It's tempting to view the actions of certain characters as evil, but all of the motivations are believable and things play out in a really cool way. Also, how cool is it that this was announced and released on the same day? I didn't even have to get up from the couch after #TheBigGame. Except to pee. Anyway, I'd recommend this to fans of sci-fi. It's less horror than the previous movie so don't expect a ton of scares, or for the filmmakers to answer all the questions you have about the larger fictional universe/multiverse.… Expand
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kaiserberginMar 13, 2018
Pretty fun sci-fi movie that critics hate because something something hard to follow something something sentient hand something something "I didn't get to review it before it came out and I don't like losing influence over how a movie isPretty fun sci-fi movie that critics hate because something something hard to follow something something sentient hand something something "I didn't get to review it before it came out and I don't like losing influence over how a movie is received when it opens". It's easy to follow. And they warn the viewers that the experiment will rip apart the fabric of reality and then remind you a few times later, so you should expect weird stuff that you can't explain to happen.… Expand
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tasslehoff69Mar 19, 2018
Started out promising, but quickly devolved into a mess. Didn't like the main character at all.
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abm0Mar 16, 2018
It would've been so easy to take the stupidity just one step further and make it a full-blown parody, but no - they had to stop halfway and make a seriously stupid paranormal-fi movie with ridiculous physics, ridiculous jump-scares and overIt would've been so easy to take the stupidity just one step further and make it a full-blown parody, but no - they had to stop halfway and make a seriously stupid paranormal-fi movie with ridiculous physics, ridiculous jump-scares and over the top drama. Not even the good actors they had in there could save this trainwreck. Don't waste your time on this one.… Expand
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stef_hFeb 13, 2018
why do people complain this wouldnt fit in the cloverfield universe? it fits perfectly. the shepard works with the multiverse theory and that explains it all. any decision you ever made, will lead to an extra universe with different choicewhy do people complain this wouldnt fit in the cloverfield universe? it fits perfectly. the shepard works with the multiverse theory and that explains it all. any decision you ever made, will lead to an extra universe with different choice and of course there are thousands of universes where things went different and humankind even dont existed because their progenitors made different decisions.
so of course there are a lot of universes with an earth with total different inhabitants. (the "monsters" from movie one and the "aliens" from movie two)
due to the shepard several universes crashed together and many things are drawing together resulting in the strange things happening at the space station. (and on earth as you can see in the other 2 movies)
its impossible for a human to foreknow all possibilities happening in different universes so they just refer to it as chaos because of the human disability to understand it. but of course its not chaos, if you could see all the other universes and their parameters, everything would make totally sense, but they dont show you that on the movie.
so people are confused. and rate this a bad movie. but its not.
i would like to explain everything a little bit more detailed but im not a native english speaker, sorry.… Expand
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ViniciusBritoJan 18, 2019
In a possible reality the world is in a shortage of basic resources for survival, there is a lack of energy for example with a lot of blackouts. Then astronauts,  from different places in the world, go for a mission in space looking foward toIn a possible reality the world is in a shortage of basic resources for survival, there is a lack of energy for example with a lot of blackouts. Then astronauts,  from different places in the world, go for a mission in space looking foward to make a strong machine work and then give humanity energy to keep living again. And doing that they just end up in another dimension. Directed by Julius Onah and written by Oren Uziel.
So let's start with what is good about the story, wich is the idea, the whole idea is very nice, the characters traveling to another dimension unintentionally and finding out that are versions of themselves and in different conditions are really nice, and the consequence of this broke of time and space being the reason of the creation of monsters, wich we see in other movies from the franchise, the fact that this makes any other creative situations with monsters in any historical moment, not mattering space or time is really good. The justification for the story isn't the worst thing, lack of energy and something so strong to be done on earth can produce more and save people's life, isn't bad, but isn't very good neither, the main thing was to see how that was going to go, the storytelling in this film is really that bad, wich implies to make the audience bored, because there isn't much moments where i got enthusiastic watching this, the story isn't fun, the happenings overall aren't interesting, so all of this helps to make this a bad movie, is the essential. One really bad thing about this film is that all the time they are saying to eachother to go fix that, go do that, arrange this, and sometimes you actually see them doing these things, but it doesn't matter, just never, is all the damn time, you just don't know what they are fixing or doing with tools and all the time we see them using things, a lot of things happen when they are doing those and you just don't get it, i was just like: "but what was he even doing there". There are so many plot holes, that i really got stressed in some moments, i got that the dimensions colapsing and that is the paradox, so strange things happens, that is cool but i think that they went to far in a level that this movie isn't the kind of to do that, like, i'm ok with an arm moving alone, but how in the world and why, a arm would know that a compass would be in the stomach of another guy, that is nonsense in a way that this is not the kind of film to have it, it is nice that everything is strange, people are appearing out of nowhere and they know the others, but there somethings that just didn't fit. More towards the end there are some characters that do somethings really nonsense, i mean, it first makes a decision, and 5 minutes later it completely changes the decision with absolutely nothing being different, the 3rd act of this film have so many flaws that what could have saved the movie in some point, with at least some nice scenes really just made it worst for me. There are some nice scenes, right after they lost Earth and they not sure what is happening, that is nice, imagine that you are orbiting the planet and for one time to another you just completely lost it and have no idea where is it anymore, here is a nice agony, and the things that start happening after it, some work, some doens't, but the true is that it is nice to see strange things going on. About the dimension situation the thing about Ava character is really nice, where in one dimension one bad thing have happened and in the other one the problem is not there, so the fight for stay there or not it is nice.
The chemistry between the characters, until some point it is fine, but it got way to whatever. Gugu mbatha-raw overall don't really do a much different or stable thing, but there is a monologue towards the end and some tears in other moments that were really nice. Elizabeth Debicki have some moments in this film that works, her doubt face in some moments is fine, but in other her misunderstanding weren't really convincing, i don't know if that was directing or she, but wasn't good. All the others are just functional, there weren't really much moments for each other.
The cinematography really don't mean much, there are some lights in some moments, some use of cameras, but really nothing very special neither inside or outside the station. The soundtrack is ok, but still no big deal neither.
Cloverfield Paradox is a film with a very interesting idea, but poorly executed, a story that got interesting during some minutes, but because so many plot holes and a 3rd act with not much coherence, this is self sabotaging.… Expand
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puntmanMar 3, 2018
I wanted to love this. It had a decent beginning and developed itself well with some great, good and meh acting. They couldn't decide on a plot line and then tried them all. It went from a surprising thriller to a boring star trek episode.
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spacebear1Feb 10, 2018
Julius Onah's The Cloverfield Paradox is a disappointing installment in this overall great series. The acting is pretty good and the story is good along with the visuals. But the script is bland, the characters are cliches and there'sJulius Onah's The Cloverfield Paradox is a disappointing installment in this overall great series. The acting is pretty good and the story is good along with the visuals. But the script is bland, the characters are cliches and there's material in this film that has been seen in plenty of other films. In the end, this film is enjoyable when watching, but in the long run, is really forgettable.… Expand
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Bobby_TheRookieFeb 21, 2018
I don't get this negative reviews. The movie is ok, not "OMG" and not "meh". It made an impression of very unusual movie. Yes, a lot of questions left unanswered but isn't it better for some mystery to remain?
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ElWrayFeb 19, 2018
I've never watched the other cloverfield movies. But I saw the trailer on Netflix and it was a long time since i watched a good space thriller. I looked up some reviews online and to my shock, it was received pretty bad. So I put it aside forI've never watched the other cloverfield movies. But I saw the trailer on Netflix and it was a long time since i watched a good space thriller. I looked up some reviews online and to my shock, it was received pretty bad. So I put it aside for a while, until this saturday when I was bored as hell and I wanted to watch a entertaining Sci-fi movie, thinking; 'How bad can this really be?' Turns out, this movie is not as bad as people say. Sure, it's not 2001 or Alien, but it was fun! It was escapism to the max. The movie might as well been on the Sci-fi channel, if not for the cool, and somewhat derivative, set and costume design. I also liked the CGI in this one, or it didn't bother me. Writing and acting was entertaining, aside from some weirdly placed humor moments. If you go in expecting something great, you will be disappointed. If you go in expecting a fun Sci-fi movie, you will be entertained. All and all, I don't get the hate.. And it was surely more entertaining then the Last Jedi...… Expand
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LoperFeb 20, 2018
The movie is painfully average. It's confusing, plot-hole ridden, and weird at times. The plot doesn't know if it wants to be sci-fi or supernatural. All that being said, the main characters were fantastic. Overall, this is a solid B movie.The movie is painfully average. It's confusing, plot-hole ridden, and weird at times. The plot doesn't know if it wants to be sci-fi or supernatural. All that being said, the main characters were fantastic. Overall, this is a solid B movie. For the Netflix price, its worth checking out, but it if had been in theatres I would say save your money.… Expand
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AMFcriticNov 1, 2018
The mystery is handled pretty well, but the problems come with terror and the strange and ugly CGI. 5.2 / 10
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F111Feb 13, 2018
Once there was the term 'straight to DVD' which just got replaced by 'straight to Netflix'.

I'll not cram this with spoilers. In short I'll just say its a cheap mash up of seemingly unrelated sci-fi ideas amalgamated into one incoherent lowOnce there was the term 'straight to DVD' which just got replaced by 'straight to Netflix'.

I'll not cram this with spoilers. In short I'll just say its a cheap mash up of seemingly unrelated sci-fi ideas amalgamated into one incoherent low budget TV movie. The only solid connection with the series is the title which is such a shame as Cloverfield, for me, was one of the greatest sci-fi/monster/disaster movies of all time.

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caf2042Mar 1, 2018
The Cloverfield Paradox was the surprise Cloverfield movie we didn’t know we didn’t want. I was so excited when I found out I was going to be able to watch it right after the game. That excitement turned to confusion after I finished theThe Cloverfield Paradox was the surprise Cloverfield movie we didn’t know we didn’t want. I was so excited when I found out I was going to be able to watch it right after the game. That excitement turned to confusion after I finished the movie. It almost feels like two different movies. One of them I like, the other I don’t. The Acting, the Direction, the score, all of the individual aspects of this movie are great. However, the finished product is a messy, confusing film that almost entirely destroys the Cloverfield continuity. It’s honestly really crazy. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a movie that has so many great aspects, but has no idea how to put them together. A disappointing, but enjoyable film.… Expand
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eejitMar 5, 2018
This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. It baffles me why all those professional critics who call this movie a nonsense don't hold a star wars or superhero nonsense to the same standard? To any hard core scifi fan this movie is not too bad attempt to tackle really hard questions regarding a real nature of our world, that is to large extend still a big unknown. This is what collision of parallel universes should be like - chaotic, incomprehensible, sometimes even comical. The time - past, present and future shouldn't make sense anymore and causality is abandoned. This is the world the physicist see and kudos to anyone who tries to convey that incomprehensible reality in a blockbuster movie. Overall the movie is, like modern physics, grossly misunderstood, so if you're a hard core scifi fan and know who Assimov, Lem, Le Guin are, you should give it a go, and don't mind pro critics who can't handle anything that doesn't play games or pays homage to their predefined and static ideas of genres and subgenres. Throw out casuality, throw in space-time continuum and they're all lost. Just like a good sci fi literature it presents interesting moral dilemmas, like should I choose a better path of parallel reality, should I interfere with it. It creates great causality mess out of two engineers who are their own replacements in different realities but have to handle the consequences of their personal collision plus parallel existence on earth as younger version of self. It reminds me one of the short stories from Lem's Star Diaries, where Ijon Tichy gets trapped with his ship into time loop and tries to repair it getting a hand from different version of himself. Overall the movie is not a 10/10, it has too many ideas thrown in and they're not all being developed as they could, a few loose ends but is still a very enjoyable experience and a solid scifi.… Expand
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Minh18121999Mar 18, 2018
Great cast. amazing visual spectacle and good production design, but confusing narrative and a lazy-ass script with one idiotic exposition scene killed this film entirely just after 15 minutes .As a sci fi film: watchable,but as a horrorGreat cast. amazing visual spectacle and good production design, but confusing narrative and a lazy-ass script with one idiotic exposition scene killed this film entirely just after 15 minutes .As a sci fi film: watchable,but as a horror ???more like a comedy.The third Cloverfield made the other two even more confusing.Clever marketing by Netfilx but ended up a bloated mess(5/10)… Expand
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StarScream03Mar 18, 2018
A really good space movie with a good old willy cloverfield title spanked right on. This is a good movie with hell of an ending for me as i loved all the other movies. The only bad thing is the very misleading trailer and somewhat misleadingA really good space movie with a good old willy cloverfield title spanked right on. This is a good movie with hell of an ending for me as i loved all the other movies. The only bad thing is the very misleading trailer and somewhat misleading ending. but overall a really good movie.… Expand
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pearlkyoudaiMar 23, 2018
This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The ammount of stupidity in this movie is off the charts. While watching this movie, I said "Wtf is going on?" out loud probably about 20 times. I don't even know where to start... Why the hell is everyone talking mandarin to that chinese chick ? Since when is mandarin the language of international science? What happened to the russian guy and his eyes ? Why ? How did that "gyro" compas end up inside his corpse ? How did Mundy's arm know about it ? The black "commander" commits suicide, because **** you... They were able to hear the screams of "Jensen" from miles away (who ended up inside a wall for some **** all reason) , in an invironment that is supposed to be soundproof and air tight... Oh boy, this movie would have been funny if it was a comedy, but no... It's blood serious.… Expand
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GrantD243Apr 25, 2018
Selling The Cloverfield Paradox to Netflix was a smart move by Paramount. They didn't have to worry about losing any money on a film that was rumored to not be that great, and instead they made a guaranteed profit, albeit a small one, fromSelling The Cloverfield Paradox to Netflix was a smart move by Paramount. They didn't have to worry about losing any money on a film that was rumored to not be that great, and instead they made a guaranteed profit, albeit a small one, from it. Netflix knew exactly what they wanted to do with it, too, as they had a commercial during the Super Bowl that said the film would be on Netflix right after the game. So I bet they got a lot of people to watch it, at least way more than who would have seen it in the theaters. So I watched it, of course, and it's by far the worst film in the franchise. It almost feels like that this was originally a B-level sci-fi movie and they decided to make it into a Cloverfield movie towards the end of production. There's a scene towards the beginning of the movie, that seems pretty shoehorned in, that is the primary tie to the Cloverfield universe. Take that scene out, and the only indicator that this is a Cloverfield movie is the very last scene of the movie (which I won't spoil here). Of course, that could also be said about 10 Cloverfield Lane, but this ain't no 10 Cloverfield Lane. The characters aren't particularly interesting or engaging, and there are a lot of story elements throughout the movie that genuinely do not make sense and are never explained. The story itself had potential, but it never really took off and became the enthralling sci-fi story it could have. There's also some very sloppy editing at times, and I'm pretty sure I shook my head once or twice. But still, despite all of that, the movie is watchable. You're not going to be checking the time every five minutes or feel like completely exiting out of the movie. To me, it's the equivalent of a mediocre episode of Black Mirror. It's not absolutely terrible, but it's not going to impress you, either.… Expand
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NoahboyJul 13, 2019
Cloverfield Paradox (2018): This movie is really, really bad. Things just happen for seemingly no reason, and nothing makes any sense. I can't say much more about such an unenjoyably dumb movie other than that the plot is really messy.
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EgeBerkAug 29, 2018
The series I started with the cloverfield movie is now over, I honestly say it was the worst movie in the series of three movies, even worse in the others.
The most interesting series I've seen because they are different from each other inThe series I started with the cloverfield movie is now over, I honestly say it was the worst movie in the series of three movies, even worse in the others.
The most interesting series I've seen because they are different from each other in the three movies and merge them together with only small pieces.

I would like to pass on the cloverfield paradox.Actually the movie was very smooth and enjoying the viewing(my most positive thoughts about the movie)
:):)

but it was a lot of ridiculous things, and certainly some events were no longer logical or even impossible for me, so I decided that it was a very ridiculous movie because there were more than one.There were a lot of things that I did not have in my mind I really wondered about some of the events.

I liked it very much in the previous 2 movies but unfortunately I did not like it Movies were good but it was ridiculous, unreasonable and unrealistic I could not write a lot of comments about this movie because I tried to understand the events in many minutes and I always thought in my head that such a thing could be real.
The last scene went well

I did not like this movie but if it comes to the sequel, I run to the cinema and watch it because it is a very valuable series.… Expand
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grantpolifkaAug 13, 2018
Cardboard characters, sloppy editing, confusing writing, and terrible horror genre cliches ruin what little chances the film had to begin with.
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sebastianaliSep 9, 2022
This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. While I haven't seen the other Cloverfield movies, that doesn't excuse a lot of this movie's problems. If it wasn't for certain moments with Ava (who is the only one of the crew that is useful for something in the plot) or Mina Jensen's surprise betrayal, I would give it much less than a 4, since everything in this movie doesn't make sense, there are a lot of things that are not explained or that happen when the writers are more convenient. A supposed energy crisis despite the fact that at the beginning of the movie it didn't seem like it, a monster that comes out of nowhere at the end, objects that move in the spaceship as if it were possessed, and many overacting of the protagonists.
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thegreenlanternFeb 6, 2019
Don't pay any attention to most of the poor reviews. It is my favorite of the three ... and I really liked them all. But, you have to pay attention in this one or you'll miss important details! It DOES explain the other movies. In my opinion,Don't pay any attention to most of the poor reviews. It is my favorite of the three ... and I really liked them all. But, you have to pay attention in this one or you'll miss important details! It DOES explain the other movies. In my opinion, the frequent poor reviews stem from the viewer's ignorance about particle accelerators, lack of attention to details, and inability to see this movie as science fiction. It was easy to miss dialog that was important to understanding the movie. Don't be embarrassed to turn on captioning. It helps! I use it for every movie I watch.

I'm not sure why critics do not understand the tie-ins to the previous movies. The writer clearly states that the particle accelerator is 1000x more powerful than any ever built. Not 2x, not 100x. My point being, the writer created the perfect basis for chaos being unleashed ... including chaos in time ... which is even mentioned as a potential side-effect in the movie. If you can't accept that, which I'm not saying that's what happened, you're not accepting that you're watching a sci-fi movie--and you're still trying make it fit within your understanding of particle accelerators today.

Another criticism I've seen is that the astronauts/scientists (or whatever they were called) were too immature and acting irrationally to be on a space station. Again, I don't think the critics are paying close enough attention to what is actually going on in the movie and are still trying to compare it to the way they understand the world today. Things were desperate on Earth ... and they were also running out of time. Countries were at each other's throats and looking out for their own interests. So, you can expect that these scientists (representing those countries) might be as well.

I like seeing things I've never seen before in movies. You'll see some of that.

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PCRKNIGHTFeb 22, 2019
Not terrible but it didn’t go far enough with the weirdness and the tacked on tie-in scenes were so out of place.
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RydakMar 8, 2019
Very hard to follow at times. The story line did keep me interested all the way thru the movie. The ending was crazy good, but alot of missed opportunities here I think. Editor and Director...should have focused more on twists gone out intoVery hard to follow at times. The story line did keep me interested all the way thru the movie. The ending was crazy good, but alot of missed opportunities here I think. Editor and Director...should have focused more on twists gone out into neverland. gotten them under control and smoothed things out.… Expand
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DiptanshuApr 11, 2020
Why just why!Cloverfield series was awesome until this everything is messed-up and boring yet it also has good music,visuals and acting 1st half was boring and crap the moment when the guy lost arm and multiverse kind of things happen feltWhy just why!Cloverfield series was awesome until this everything is messed-up and boring yet it also has good music,visuals and acting 1st half was boring and crap the moment when the guy lost arm and multiverse kind of things happen felt awesome and ending was good too but considering it cloverfield 3rd installment where the hell they are showcasing monsters if they have to make character centric cloverfield film they should make it like the 2nd one it is a masterpiece where as this felt like okish crap!… Expand
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julianmiltonJul 31, 2019
Paradox has its moments, going back and forth between two stages and keeping the audience guessing of their interconnectivity. At the end, we get well... nothing out of it. Some "ooh ahh" moments surrounded with mediocrity.
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bonefish2000Mar 28, 2022
I loved this movie. Went in with no real expectations except for the fact that I have seen the first two cloverfield movies and loved them. Not sure why the reviews are so negative. Give it a watch for yourself instead of basing your opinionI loved this movie. Went in with no real expectations except for the fact that I have seen the first two cloverfield movies and loved them. Not sure why the reviews are so negative. Give it a watch for yourself instead of basing your opinion on other reviewers. I did and I had a great time. Makes you say “what the f***?!” but in a good way.… Expand
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MalwareLordAug 13, 2023
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infraReconMay 16, 2023
Oh boy, so I watched the previous movies and finally watched this one, this ended up being disappointing. The Idea of an Interdimensional multiverse existing isn't a bad idea however this movie poorly, and I mean POORLY represents how all ofOh boy, so I watched the previous movies and finally watched this one, this ended up being disappointing. The Idea of an Interdimensional multiverse existing isn't a bad idea however this movie poorly, and I mean POORLY represents how all of that works.

Let me get the goods out of the way, the VFX and other effects are great, but everything else is not good. From what I understand they wanted to tie in the previous films, this is definitely not the way they should have done it. Another great thing about the film is the music, Bear McCreary just knocks it out of the park with the themes.

Now on to the bads, The two plots that are going on at the same time, yeah don't do that, it splits the focus of the film.
Next the Characters and How they act, This is what I call stupid acting, where the characters are logically uneasy to follow.
Not only that, the acting itself is not good, I've definitely seen better in any Sci-Fi Indi film.
Next, the story and plot are mashed up into this generic and predictable mess. The entire film when a certain character pops up I was just predicting on point what was going to happen.
Finally, the paradox, this is not how paradoxes work, this is not how any of that works, the film mentions chaos and unpredictability in a Dimensional Multiverse.

Meaning there are multiple realities stemming from a source reality, there aren't just 2 realities where you can travel to each other, that's not how that works.

Look I'm not a physicist but I am a Computer Scientist, And I understand from years of coding, mathematics and simulations how the natural and unnatural forms of logic can be influenced, changed and implemented, at least in a theoretical manner.
And if that's not enough I've watched enough content that deals with space, time and the effect of gravity on space-time, there's also the internet where any average person on the block can just look up and figure out anything science.

"But the mass and energy were so big that they travelled into another dimension."
Ha, no if that were the case then why are black holes visible, why are stars visible, and why are planets visible and not travelling to different dimensions? Ok, black holes here are the exception, but still what they did wasn't a black hole. I'm not too salty about the science behind it but hey I can deal with a little bit of fictional science if it is implemented well, We've seen StarWars, and I like StarWars.

Anyway, this film was overall disappointing, the cool effects couldn't save it and yeah.
4/10, this movie has holes(Is this a Joke, maybe), and unanswered questions and compared to the previous films it is worse. I didn't expect this at all I expected some chaotic maybe even fictional science(They tried but just really poorly done) to be in this film, instead, it's just not that. All of this does not work or make sense, in the context they wanted it to be in. To me, it is an incomplete film.

I will now search longer for other good Sci-Fi films, do I need to go to another reality for this, maybe in another reality this film is good, or maybe it was bad and was rated good.
I don't know. I'll see what happens.… Expand
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