The Reel Review
JJ Abrams’ highly-anticipated sequel to his popular 2008 sci-fi thriller Cloverfield (and 2016’s 10 Cloverfield Lane) picks up sometime in the future, where a multi-national space station crew trying to solve a global energy crisis on Earth discovers a time-and-space bending effect that enables travel between different dimensions. The Netflix/Paramount Pictures joint venture, released on Netflix immediately after the Super Bowl, is presumably designed to be a trippy, inter-dimensional concept to reveal the origin of the Cloverfield monsters, but the schlocky story is more a muddled mashup of Life and Alien, starring the forearm character “Thing” from The Addams Family. (Seriously. This is not a joke.) The story is lazily confusing, the dialogue lame, and the “knock off each character one by one” plot device is so sci-fi cliché, it is no paradox at all that Paramount dumped this senseless mess onto Netflix to avert an embarrassing box office disaster.
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