#10: The Cloverfield Paradox

With a SURPRISE! release on Feb. 4th on Netflix, this was completely unintended. Because the previous Cloverfield movie is called 10 Cloverfield Lane and this .... is film number 10 of the year.

Okay, you got it.

You can't just shove a bunch of concepts into a pot and call it Cloverfield, then, halfway through, pick one thing out and decide to center the rest of the movie around them.

So for the first thirty minutes of this film I wondered why nobody talked about implementing solar or wind power.

That thirty minutes grew into the entire movie. 

There's a tiny speech about how this is a paradox, how two different realities are fighting for space - So, what in the other dimension makes a wall eat someone's arm?

I'm glad Gugu was more or less the lead, but nearly everyone had these one-liner personalities. Hell, Ziyi Zhang's only trait was "Speaking Mandarin Chinese"! Come on.

It does that thing many people disliked about Lane. Near the end. Just saying.

It's just a big, jumbled, slightly entertaining mess. But only slightly.