The Cloverfield Paradox's reviews
Media reviews
The Playlist
"The greatest benefit of the shock release of 'The Cloverfield Paradox' is that going in cold makes the most out of the film?s bonkers turns."
Vulture
"Things speed up too quickly, meaning just when the movie?s rhythms should become loopier and the action more eccentric, 'The Cloverfield Paradox' becomes one more formulaic ticking-clock series of chases and shootings with a moral dilemma for pathos and then uplift."
Vanity Fair
"'The Cloverfield Paradox' reaches for so many outlandish twists, turns, and sci-fi tropes that it forgets to build the one thing that genre stories of its kind need: believable and sympathetic human characters."
Empire
"The third Cloverfield film is just about a Cloverfield film, but definitely a disappointment, trading on its name but not living up to its already muddled heritage. Only intermittently fun."
The Telegraph
"As 2017?s gripping and confidently philosophical 'Life' proved, it?s possible to weave an original action movie from the smelly-people-trapped-in-space cliche. Yet 'The Cloverfield Paradox'?s take on the genre is ham-fisted, with deafening bursts of exposition strewn between endless, talky, tedium."
The Guardian
"'The Cloverfield Paradox' is an unholy mess... As the film bumbles from one confusingly mounted scene to the next, disappointment turns to boredom. The eerie early scenes fade into standard space horror panic and given how crowded that particular subgenre is, 'The Cloverfield Paradox' emerges as a pale imitation."
Roger Ebert
"'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. It fizzles so badly at the end that you might legitimately wonder if it ever had anything to do with the other two films in the first place, or if it was produced independently of the series and retroactively added."
New York Times
"The actual movie is strangely plain, eyesore-overlit and uselessly frantic."
Los Angeles Times
"Narrative incompetence is one of the more venial sins of big-budget filmmaking, but there is something particularly ugly and cynical about the sloppiness of 'The Cloverfield Paradox', as if its status as a franchise stepping stone excused its blithe contempt for the audience's satisfaction."
Indiewire
"It?s worth remembering that the ?Cloverfield? movies were only able to successfully disrupt conventional distribution methods because they?re good. The best thing you can say about this one is that it?s free with your Netflix subscription."
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote