The Cloverfield Paradox
Orbiting above a planet on the brink of war, scientists test a device to solve an energy crisis and end up face-to-face with a dark alternate reality.
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Dawn Gilliam
Julius Onah
Mark Anthony Little
Christopher T. Sadler
Jake Waller
Jean-Paul Chreky
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Walruse
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.
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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.
ConradM
Like Prometheus in 2012, this was a serious disappointment. The characters' decisions are bizarre, motivations are unexplained. The science is bogus. The horror elements are not horrifying. The whole thing lacks style, originality, humour or any kind of spark. The movie fails to establish any meaningful personality for the crew members, so the only question becomes which one will die next. OK, there's one potentially interesting idea: have each character speak in their own national language (except the Brazilian guy: not sure why he doesn't get to?!) but the movie fails to take it anywhere. Similar but much better films include: Europa Report, Event Horizon, Solaris (original and remake), Cargo, 2010.
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The directors of The Cloverfield Paradox are Dawn Gilliam, Julius Onah, Mark Anthony Little, Christopher T. Sadler, Jake Waller, and Jean-Paul Chreky.
The cast of The Cloverfield Paradox includes John Ortiz as Monk Acosta, Daniel Brühl as Schmidt, Simon Pegg as Radio Voice, Zhang Ziyi as Tam, Donal Logue as Mark Stambler, Chris O'Dowd as Mundy, Greg Grunberg as Joe (voice), Elizabeth Debicki as Mina Jensen, David Oyelowo as Kiel, Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Ava Hamilton, Aksel Hennie as Volkov, Suzanne Cryer as Newscaster, and more.
The duration of The Cloverfield Paradox is 1h 42 mins.
Yes. You can watch the The Cloverfield Paradox trailer on this Fanbiz page on Fanziz.
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The Cloverfield Paradox was released on 04 Feb 2018.
The Cloverfield Paradox is listed under Horror, Mystery, and Science Fiction on Fanbiz.
The Cloverfield Paradox has 3 reviews on Fanziz, with an average rating of 4.0/10. One reviewer wrote: "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..."
