The Cloverfield Paradox (2018)

Orbiting a planet on the brink of war, scientists test a device to solve an energy crisis, and end up face-to-face with a dark alternate reality.

Director:

Julius Onah

Writers:

Oren Uziel (screenplay by), Oren Uziel (story by)

Stars:

Gugu Mbatha-Raw, David Oyelowo, Daniel Brühl

1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Gugu Mbatha-Raw	...	Hamilton
David Oyelowo	...	Kiel
Daniel Brühl	...	Schmidt
John Ortiz	...	Monk
Chris O'Dowd	...	Mundy
Aksel Hennie	...	Volkov
Ziyi Zhang	...	Tam
Elizabeth Debicki	...	Jensen
Roger Davies	...	Michael
Clover Nee	...	Molly
Jordan Rivera	...	Ayana Age 7
Michael Stokes III	...	Isaac Age 7
Celeste Clark	...	Ayana Age 4
Nathan Oliver	...	Isaac Age 4
Donal Logue	...	Mark Stambler

Storyline

In the near future, there is an energy crisis on Earth. The Cloverfield Station with a multinational crew will test the Shepard particle accelerator expecting to generate energy for all countries solving the energy problem. However, the experiment goes wrong, damages the station and opens a portal to another dimension with a parallel Earth. They also find a woman entwined with wires behind a bulkhead of the station and they learn she worked in an identical Cloverfield Station in another dimension. Now the scientists need to find a way to return to their own dimension.

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Plot Keywords:

energy crisis | particle accelerator | space station | alternate dimension | alternate reality | 

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Taglines:

The future unleashed every thing.

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Genres:

Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller

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Certificate:

PG-13

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English Mandarin

Release Date:

4 February 2018 (USA)

Also Known As:

Clean Pass

Filming Locations:

Paramount Studios - 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$26,000,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Bad Robot, Paramount Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

102 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.39 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Just like Michelle's network carrier in 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016), Michael's phone carrier is "BRT". This is a shortened version of J.J. Abrams' production company "Bad Robot".

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Goofs

Characters regularly refer to an urgent power crisis on Earth. For example, Hamilton talks about how she installed an illegal power cell so that her children would have lights at night. Yet everyone on Earth is shown to be using energy at current day levels: they drive cars, have cellphones, watch broadcast television and use the internet.

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Quotes

Mundy: Hey guys, check out my arm. I think my arm is trying to write something.

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Connections

Referenced in Half in the Bag: Slender Man (2018)

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Soundtracks

Tied Up
Written by Tom Stubbs (as Wolfgang Black)
Courtesy of Extreme Music

User Reviews

Disappointing

Although the performances were fine, the story was a muddled mix of bad science (gravity doesn't work like that, not in any of the scenes) and sci-fi cliches, with several random mentions of the word "Cloverfield" shoe-horned in inexplicably. The film introduces several "haunted house" elements that are never explained.

There is less than a minute of content that connects this to the other Cloverfield movies, and as minor and inconsequential as the connection is, they still manage to contradict the events in the other films.

No one can watch this and find it faultless. The 10/10 "Must see!" user reviews were presumably written by publicists.