Review: The Cloverfield Paradox, In Space, No One Can Hear You Reason
- Feb 5, 2018
- 2 min read
The Cloverfield Paradox continues the now trilogies bizarre tradition of having little to nothing to do with a found footage monster destroying New York City. And I still don't know why.
The world is having an energy crisis (this came out of nowhere) and the worlds hopes have turned to an orbital particle accelerator that could potentially defy the laws of physics and create energy from nothing. Then, naturally, things go wrong.
The Cloverfield Paradox has more in common with the 1997 film Event Horizon than it does with anything that bears the Cloverfield name. A mysterious energy device severely messes up a spacecraft and the crew must do battle with all manner of unexplained nasties. The big difference is that Event Horizon is competently made and Cloverfield Paradox is nothing more than a big science fiction shit-show.
Characters are egregiously stupid, to mind boggling degrees. The writing flip-flops between pseudo-science nonsense to some truly disconnected conversations and the big end twist is totally and utterly redundant. It is so painfully apparent that no concept of reality was put into the film at any point. While it starts off interestingly enough it rapidly divulges into the cinematic equivalent of landfill, throwing recycled ideas into every situation with no finesse whatsoever. And Beware Spoilers, the final moments where the connection to the first film is made is treated like some big reveal, despite the fact that it's blatantly obvious from about 10 minutes in. And it doesn't even line up with the original.
In short, The Cloverfield Paradox deserves a Netflix release because it's definitely not cinema worthy. It's an awful movie that should be forgotten. Don't touch it with a monster-sized stick.
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