This is the third movie in the Cloverfield franchise, following Cloverfield and 10 Cloverfield Lane. It is about a group of international astronauts who is trying to solve the earth's energy problems by testing out a particle accelerator in space. The particle accelerator trigger an unusual event and the team travels to an alternative dimension. The spaceships from both dimensions merges and then it gets weird, things disappear, an unknown woman is trapped inside the walls of the ship and the ship is killing of every member, one by one.
The plot of this movie is weird, I mean, I understand it and the start is sensible but then they create and paradox that is not really a paradox. Given the right technology it should be possible to travel between alternative dimensions without having the universe killing of the entire team. Why should worms suddenly murder a man from the inside and why should a space ship have a part with living metal that tries to eat another man. I mean, okay we have this merging of two dimension's spaceships that we call a paradox and when there is a paradox the universe will try to correct it by removing the problem. That is an acceptable premise, but just because a paradox had happened, the universe would still have to follow the laws of physics to correct the paradox, it can not just let the wall of a spaceship become living, have it cut of the arm of a crewmember and then let the arm be sentient. You need to follow the physical laws in the universe or give an explanation to why the laws are different in this universe.
So that is one big part of the movie I find as a negative point. The second part I dislike is that the end feels obsolete. The persons who has the biggest incentive in returning to the first dimension, are the ones who dies first and those who return is met with a monster on their way to earth. The sensible ending would have been that the last survivors agreed that this particle accelerator was too dangerous for any universe considering how it can create paradoxes that allows the universe to kill you any way it wants to. Instead of a joyous return, it should have ended with heartfelt sacrifice and a big implosion.
So what I am saying, is that the premise is okay but the story and ending is less than okay. In fact I find this to be a recurring trait to all the Cloverfield movies. I am unimpressed by the entire franchise, I have watched them all with high hopes but it just does not seem to get there. I think the franchise has one chance left of making it all fantastic and that is by making one grand movie that connects all the others in an epic story. But lucky for the franchise I am only one opinion and people seem to like at least the first two movies. I will give this movie half a star out of five, I considered not reviewing it at all and it took me ten days to finally make a review.
The plot of this movie is weird, I mean, I understand it and the start is sensible but then they create and paradox that is not really a paradox. Given the right technology it should be possible to travel between alternative dimensions without having the universe killing of the entire team. Why should worms suddenly murder a man from the inside and why should a space ship have a part with living metal that tries to eat another man. I mean, okay we have this merging of two dimension's spaceships that we call a paradox and when there is a paradox the universe will try to correct it by removing the problem. That is an acceptable premise, but just because a paradox had happened, the universe would still have to follow the laws of physics to correct the paradox, it can not just let the wall of a spaceship become living, have it cut of the arm of a crewmember and then let the arm be sentient. You need to follow the physical laws in the universe or give an explanation to why the laws are different in this universe.

So what I am saying, is that the premise is okay but the story and ending is less than okay. In fact I find this to be a recurring trait to all the Cloverfield movies. I am unimpressed by the entire franchise, I have watched them all with high hopes but it just does not seem to get there. I think the franchise has one chance left of making it all fantastic and that is by making one grand movie that connects all the others in an epic story. But lucky for the franchise I am only one opinion and people seem to like at least the first two movies. I will give this movie half a star out of five, I considered not reviewing it at all and it took me ten days to finally make a review.
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