The Worst Film Ever

Great Film overall

Good concept, poorly executed.

Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.

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.

I've watched all the clover field movies, yes even the one about the fall out shelter. Apparently these movies take place at the same time just different parallels. I have to google what was going on to understand because for a moment I thought they were just making movies. They are in space to save the world blah blah blah and oops we opened another dimension! I'm not a fan of the movies and didn't enjoy the storyline. I guess I just wanted to see monsters rip people apart.

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.

Cloverfield was fine. The "sequel" was really dull and kinda totally unrelated to the original. So, here we have the second "sequel" and it's equally silly. (Seriously, was it that hard to generate sequels related to the original?)If you care to enjoy this film, even as a badfilm worthy of a night of cheap beer, you absolutely must skip past the first 20 minutes. It is here where they set everything up, and it's so ridiculous that it makes watching the rest of the film difficult. The premise has to do with the Earth "running out of energy", so we send a bunch of crazed scientists to space to perform some vague experiment that is likely to rip open the space/time continuum; which (oh no, spoiler!) it does. From here on out, I kept scratching my head and saying to myself things like "well, if they didn't send these looneys up there, things might be fine" and "wait, so all the other issues on Earth weren't enough concern? it took a vague energy crisis to make them launch these clowns into space?" Et cetera. And if you're still watching, you have to be drinking something. The dialog and the characters are just crap. No beating around the bush here! It's a decent looking SciFi with absolutely nothing going for it except it's name... Avoid.