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:

TV-MA

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

A small figurine with the word Slusho can be seen in the first half of the movie. Slusho is a brand subtly featured in both of the earlier Cloverfield movies, as well as J.J. Abrams' earlier TV series Alias (2001). The viral online campaign for Cloverfield (2008) indicated that Slusho is a subsidiary of Tagruato Inc., the company behind the deep ocean drilling (and potential explosion) that woke up the monster in that movie.

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Goofs

In this film we see one character (Tam) speaking Chinese exclusively, including for critical information during an emergency. In a later scene where Tam and Schmidt speak in Chinese, Volkov cannot eavesdrop on them due to his inability to understand Chinese.

International space station crews typically speak English, with a Russian language requirement if they are flying Russian craft. It's extremely unlikely that crews would use English and Chinese in this fashion however. We are shown that at least one crew member cannot understand Chinese, so there is a high risk of miscommunication during critical operations.

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Quotes

Mundy: What are you talking about, Arm?

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Connections

Referenced in Filmbarátok Podcast: Episode #1.138 (2018)

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Soundtracks

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

User Reviews

Very enjoyable but lacks of explanation

Well, if you fan of cloverfield, this movie is might find enjoyable but some parts still haven't explained like how the ship suddenly went rogue and kill some of the members