Josh A
At this point, Cloverfield is less of a connected series and more of an anthology, so I judge these movies as standalones. This movie is a great standalone movie, but it's also kinda connected to Cloverfield.
Firstly, as a standalone movie, this is great. It's like Wild Blue Yonder meets an indie multiverse movie where everything is messed up in the alternate universes. It's entertaining, weird and, above all, experimental. I quite like it. It's just fun, well made and well shot. The acting is also great and it's weird seeing actors I know for specific roles in different roles e.g. Daniel Brühl, who played Schmidt and who I'm used to seeing as Helmut Zemo in the MCU.
And then we have the ending. We're back in the main universe, everything is happy... but it's not. We get Michael shouting through his phone, desperately telling the people on the other side to send Ava and Schmidt back. But we don't learn why, until we get a shot of the clouds, and Clover appears. If you haven't seen Cloverfield, you can tell that the timelines have changed and they might be in danger. But if you've seen Cloverfield, you know how much danger Ava and Michael are in. You've seen Clover's rampage in New York. And that was just a baby. This is an adult Clover. It's a great ending.
Overall, a great standalone film but also a great spiritual sequel to Cloverfield.
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Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
01/11/25
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This is one of the worst sci-fi movies I've seen in years. As an audience member, I found it pretty hard to relate to many of the characters and that was mainly because the only actor who performed well was the guy who played Kiel, however the actress for Ava had her moments at times as well to be fair. While the ending was also somewhat intriguing, at the end of the day it made the whole movie's central plot of trying to find a way back home to their Earth/dimension for nothing, especially since there won't be a sequel! Plus, the main solution that they tried with getting back home was extremely highly improbable to work, but they did it anyways and it did?? How many other parallel universes and dimensions could they have possibly ended up in aside from the original one?? Literally more than millions and millions right?? At one point I just stopped paying attention too. Most of the time, I was uninterested. They went from a really good and original found footage piece of art to this??? Really??
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Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars
01/05/25
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Tyler H
Will never understand the massive hate.. it’s a good horror space movie.. incredibly entertaining and the ending is just awesome in a messed up way.. I think people expected big monsters like clover field lane? Grow up..
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
12/19/24
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Evan W
Two years after watching this movie, I found myself still scratching my head as to how a movie this awful made it past so many eyes. This prompted me to watch it again. Truly, even worse the second time. This is not a sci-fi movie, this is not a horror movie, this is not a good movie. Calling this sci fi genuinely discredits the entire genre. Star wars makes up for a lack of scientific accuracy by staying mostly consistent where they choose to break physics, and by originally having good writing. This movie does neither. It leaves me about as confused as I would be if for example a person in a historical drama lets go of a cup, and it stays there in midair. That’s about the physics understanding of every single person who laid eyes on this movie in production. How could you genuinely believe that debris floating in space, would ORBIT the space station? There is not even a hand waving explanation for this such as a gravity generator, they truly believed that’s how spinning creates ‘downward’ force. Take that scene, and spread it through the whole movie. Absolute idiocy. In the science fiction, in the dialogue, in the plot itself. This obviously did not want to be a cloverfield movie. That much was tacked onto it with about grace as you can imagine. Even if you dont see the problems in the trashy, downright stupid attempt sci fi, you will likely not enjoy this movie. There is nothing to appreciate about it. Zero stars, never watching another “cloverfield” movie again.
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Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars
11/30/24
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Christoban R
SPOILER ALERT! It's no 10 Cloverfield, it's more a traditional sci-fi horror but with better than the usual dialog, and quite good actors. My major problem was with the writing, which relied heavily on sci-fi cliches like parallel universes, and outright illogical nonsense like a guy's severed arm somehow working and having a mind of its own like Thing on the Addams Family.
Other instances of terrible writing include random teleportation working in a way that only a third grader would think up, not randomly, but like God was playing tricks on us all.
Rated 3.5/5 Stars •
Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
11/22/24
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you guys are wrong this movie ripped. the guy with the arm? sweet as hell. 10 cloverfield lane makes me so uncontrollably angry and you guys have the balls to rank this as significantly lower than that garbage doo doo movie?
edit 1/2/25 :
you're going to tell me that Devil's Pass (2013) is more than twice as good as this? bozo
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Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
01/03/25
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