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It says spoilers in the title now....
I watched it right after the game ended; honestly, if Netflix would've dropped the film at halftime I would've turned off the game to watch it. Luckily living in San Diego I turned CLOVERFIELD PARADOX on around 7:45ish so I was good. The movie is only a little over 90 min. I thought the movie was pretty good: a B-movie sci-fi with junk science but some nice tension. I personally feel like the end last shot felt really tacked on, and there to for the sole purpose to placate fans upset that CLOVERFIELD LANE (IMO pound-for-pound the best of the three by quite a lot) didn't have obvious connections to the original. PARADOX felt like a really cool idea with not quite enough story to flesh out into feature length. I dug the "long distance relationship" aspect between the main character and her husband, and the two stories on earth & the station station running concurrently was a cool idea. I was more interested in their dynamic and not that interested in the space station stuff. Overall, though, I generally thought the movie was pretty good. There was enough there that appealed to me. I half expected the bunker that the husband hangs out in to belong to John Goodman's character from CLOVERFIELD LANE but thankfully the producers didn't want to make the connections to the world TOO on-the-nose. I almost hate that the SB trailer flat-out says the movie WILL be connected to the origins of the original, and I wonder if the movie didn't end with the monster shot, and instead ended with the shuttle going through the clouds and coming into the atmosphere with a world on fire and devastated by monsters' devastation if I would've been more satisfied. We all know that CLOVERFIELD LANE was originally a different movie with the alien ending re-shot and tacked on, and we all know PARADOX was originally "God Particle." I'm really curious what changed when PARADOX became a "Cloverfield" movie, and how the ending might've been originally (maybe there wasn't much action going on on earth in the first place; maybe there's a completely different ending, maybe a happier one? who knows). I would've seen this in the theater anyway, since the premise is interesting (albeit it feels a lot like THE MIST in SPACE), and I would list this as "OK/pretty good" if asked by a friend