Day 36 of the challenge! The Cloverfield franchise is one of my favorites, with 10 Cloverfield Lane being one of my all time favorite movies. So easy to guess that I was over the moon when I saw the trailer for The Cloverfield Paradox during the big game and absolutely lost it when I saw that it was being released right after on Netflix of all places. So as brilliant as the marketing and release of Paradox was, it's unfortunately not a worthy follow up to the original Cloverfield and comes no where near the b-movie masterpiece that is 10 Cloverfield Lane. Still looking forward to the next one later this year though!
The Cloverfield Paradox had a great start! It did a great job building up likable (if plain) characters and their predicament. A Cloverfield movie in space?! Great! It delivered some genuine thrills and gnarly scares whilst explaining the new rules that help connect the previous 2 films before devolving into a generic sci-fi horror. You can clearly see where the Cloverfield elements of The Cloverfield Paradox were shoehorned in to make it a Cloverfield movie.
As excited as I was, the movie just fails as both a decent horror scifi and a Cloverfield flick. I did appreciate all the easter-eggs scattered throughout, but they can only do so much. Bring on number 4 (in theaters please)!
Day 36 out, 332 to go....