Watch the trailer for The Cloverfield Paradox. There has always been a well-orchestrated campaign of secrecy surrounding the Cloverfield franchise. The first chapter was announced with an untitled trailer, teasing the destruction of New York in a film that had been a secret up until then.

This third movie in the Cloverfield series deflects attention from a giant monster and instead focuses on an odd, unstable mishmash of moods and tones, gamely held together by a fine cast. The third time's the alarm bell for the 'Cloverfield' franchise, which now veers into a deep-space muddle, one Here's what it looks like when a routine bad movie goes off its rocker. In " The Cloverfield Paradox ," a dystopian galactic muddle that feels like it could. "The Cloverfield Paradox" is a bit of a scam job, promising to reconcile entries in a series that have little in common save for a shared genre.

The Cloverfield Paradox

But for the most part, this is a bust of a movie, the kind that would probably have otherwise gotten dumped to theaters in January by a studio looking to cut its. In five years we'll have none at all, and as such, civilisation is crumbling. 'The Cloverfield Paradox' is the third experiment in the anthology franchise that makes a case for its swift, early end. Never has that been truer than in The Cloverfield Paradox, which was announced and released, in tandem, last night. During the Super Bowl (go Eagles!), an ad ran for the latest Bad. Conceptually, there's something to both Paradox and the overall loosely-connected Cloverfield universe. Unfortunately, the bulk of the movie's runtime fails to capitalize on virtually any of that promise.

Trailer The Cloverfield Paradox

The Cloverfield Paradox follows a team of six who have gone to space to test a particle accelerator. The test seems to be successful at first, but after a series of strange events occur, the team comes to the realization that. "The Cloverfield Paradox" may well prove to be a landmark moment in the history of movies, opening an inter-dimensional portal between films and their It's worth remembering that the "Cloverfield" movies were only able to successfully disrupt conventional distribution methods because they're good. The Cloverfield Paradox being announced during the Super Bowl and then released onto Netflix a few hours later is a neat thing, and could be a major shift for the film industry.

But on the movie's own merits, it's clear that Paramount took a film that plays like a worse version of last year's Life or a bad. While this movie is not the best entry in the universe it has made its home in, it's still a welcome addition to a canon that just might continue to pay off into the future. Since it's virtually impossible to discuss The Cloverfield Paradox without inadvertently revealing spoilers. As a theatrical movie, it would have been a nonevent; as a Netflix event it is, to coin a phrase, fake news.