Full disclosure: I loved both Cloverfield and 10 Cloverfield Lane, and was very excited to see what this film would add to the Cloverfield mythology.

The Cloverfield Paradox is the third entry (and the first Netflix film) in the now loosely-connected film trilogy which is a good film on its own, while managing to somewhat explain the events in the first 2 films, and actually seems to strengthen those ones without really standing on its own 2 feet.

This movie takes your usual "space horror" genre movie and adds a new mind-bending aspect to it, for better or for worse. Acting from all the cast members is suitably great. I was invested in the story from the opening scene, and I didn't ever really predict what would happen next. Lots of twists and turns, so prepare to be sitting at the edge of your seat the whole film. It's just the right length at around 1 hour and 40 minutes. A couple of the horror elements are pretty weak, with a handful of very strange visual effects (clearly some experimentation here) that sometimes don't look as great as the filmmakers were probably hoping for. But it's the chemistry, or rather, the fighting and tense relationships between the crew that really makes this movie. While

I can see why they would release this on Netflix vs theatrically because, unlike the first 2, this one would probably have crossed over into R rating territory, which could have definitely limited it's earnings at the box office.

Like it's predecessor, the aspects that make it "Cloverfield" do seemed a bit shoehorned in at the last minute, more as an afterthought than a vital component in the film's chemistry. With Lane that worked out. Here, not as much. It works with the Cloverfield universe logic, but just barely.

Personally, I thought it was a decent entry in the currently-developing Cloverfield franchise. I'm still excited to see the fourth film when it releases (hopefully in theatres) and see how it connects and furthers this ever-interesting film franchise. Hopefully it picks up steam again after this film causes a brief setback for the intriguing Cloverfield saga.

Ouch! The hype train was massive going into the film. with the trailer being released and the movie just a few hours later I was really looking forward to it. I liked 10 Cloverfield Lane a lot (I hated the first movie because of the handheld camera bs) so this was on my must watch list.

I was just as suprised as everyone else when at the end of the trailer it said watch it TONIGHT (2/4/18). So as soon as the Eagles won the super bowl I hopped on Netflix to see what it was about.

I can tell why Paramount didn't want to release the film theatrically. If it had though I feel it would of been DOA. The film didn't seem like a theater movie. It seems like a film that Netflix actually produced. This is sad, but fits in with most of the other Netflix films. By most I mean the vast majority of Netflix movies like 'Bright'

Okay so the acting is actually pretty good, there's some good people including Zemo from Civil War, but that's all the praise it really deserves. Everything else in the movie is just mediocre. Some of the things that happens in the movie are nice but mostly just weird and the movie doesn't explain how/why it happened. It does for one or two things but then there will be scene where a guys arm gets cut off and it doesn't explain why the arm is later found and sentient. Moving around by itself.

The movie jumps back and forth between the space shuttle called 'Cloverfield' and the Earth. When on Earth it focusses on the husband of the main character and a girl while they are hiding from whatever is going on outside. This doesn't to the movie at all. I feel like it would've been better just focusing on the space shuttle.

By the end it does tie the movie to the first one and how it happened and what that satellite was but not more than that. As a movie, if I saw it in theaters I would give it a lower review but as a fan the 2nd movie and whilst being able to watch this heaping pile of paradox on Netflix it's okay entertainment for an hour and forty-five minutes.

6/10

Gotta aplaud the genius marketing move by Netflx but the movie itself is pretty meh and most likely would have bombed in theaters (especially without the Cloverfield branding).

Looking at it as a standalone movie it's a standard and generic space station horror movie verging on being bad with really badly written dialogue.

But I really like how it ties together (altough rather loosely) the other two Cloverfield movies (who I think were both absolutely fantastic) and sets up future installments with unlimited story options (I hope they stay with the monster angle tough. The fourth and upcoming 'Overlord' heavily hints at somethin supernatural a la demons involved). Altough it very much feels like they made (or bought) a standard sci-fi movie and just slapped on everything Cloverfield related with reshoots.

So if you want to watch a simple standalone sci-fi movie you can just skip this one unless you're a big sci-fi fan as it does have decent actor performances, great CGI and cinematography but wonky writing.

But if you're like me and have been reading countless forums and theories about the Cloverfield monsters and aliens and their origins then definitely watch this. But be prepared to leave with more questions than you came in with (as was almost to be expected with JJ involved).

Putting Roy on a space station might sound like a bad idea, but making this movie was even worse. The Cloverfield Paradox is a rushed copy/paste job with not enough time to glue the events together. A bit of Alien here, a splash of The Philadelphia Experiment there and a handful of other classic sci-fi flicks sprinkled on top. Oh, that bit in Evil Dead was funny, lets have some of that too! Wrap it up with a title that attracts the horror people too and it is time to cash in the mockbuster it is.

Netflix. Don't go down this road. Let it end here.

It's fine sci-fi schlock. There's a likable cast, a few tense body horror moments, and an interesting idea with a disembodied arm. The mostly generic hodge podge of a script doesn't live up to the potential of the rest of the elements. However, the most glaring flaw is the B-plot, Earth scenes added thanks to test audiences, which doesn't have any bearing on the principal story that happens in space. Thanks, test audiences.