"That's all there is."

In the hopes to end the Earth's energy problem, a group aboard the Cloverfield Space Station. With two years of unsuccessful testing, the particle accelerator overloads in one test run which opened up the gates to alternate dimensions.


I'm not a huge fan of the Cloverfield movie universe, but I do find them interesting enough to actually watch them. So in a way, I'm not as obsessed with details or connections. I just find them, like I said, interesting.

The first ten minutes of the film wasn't all that bad. You have a refreshingly diverse group of people with respectable acting chops, making a rather decent but not so mindblowing script work. The story wants to be something, but it doesn't know what it wants so you end up with something dull and confusing, the marketing for it is better than the actual movie.

Highs

• An unexpected surprise, marketing wise. 
• Interesting set of somewhat diverse characters. 
• Mundy's severed arm. 

Lows

• Confused script.
• Relied so much on the cast, rather than making sense. 
• I had to look up youtube video essays to get a sense out of it. 

Overall... it's okay. It's not super bad, but it's not super great, either.  If given more time for re-write, I do believe something awesome could be done about it. It's kind of sad in a way for it could have been something groundbreaking given that we have a diverse set of interesting characters, but instead we ended up with a rather confused end product. This movie is not for me, sadly.