I saw a while ago in the list of J.J. Abrams future projects was a movie called God Particle and a as then unnamed Cloverfield project. I was notified the other day that a new Cloverfield movie was already out so I checked it out as I wasn't expecting one yet. It turns out that while making the God Particle movie at some point they decided that it was going to be the next Cloverfield movie. Whether they felt the story wasn't going as planned or it was too good to be this low-ish budget movie called God Particle or it wasn't good enough and wanted to add the Cloverfield name to it to boost it or they just couldn't get together a decent plot for the next Cloverfield movie and decided to use this one or some other idea but whatever they thought and maybe we wont find out the truth behind it they decided God Particle is now The Cloverfield Paradox the 3rd so called Cloverfield movie.
The original God Particle movie sounded quite good with Russia and America at war which a group of American astronauts are in space find themselves being contacted by some Russians as they discover Earth has in fact disappeared. This was all done with around a $10,000,000 budget until they decided to use part of this story with extra scenes added to make it into the 3rd Cloverfield movie. When completed I read the budget was now around $45,000,000 and they felt it would be hard to get that money back through box office takings so they decided to sell it to Netflix. After reading the bad reviews which were mainly about the script and then watching it and reading the background of the movie I can see why people thought it was a bit of a mess
I wasn't expecting much from this movie after reading those reviews but was hoping it was going to be better than what most people said. I was happy to say it was OK, in fact better than OK as in the end I rated it 7 out of 10 which is the same as I rated the original Cloverfield and more than the 6 I gave 10 Cloverfield Lane which I felt was over long and so slow paced that I was struggling to give it more than a 5 rating until the last 10 minutes which boosted it to a 6 in the end. I thought The Cloverfield Paradox a decent sci-fi, with a good cast, good acting, likable characters, plenty of action, some nice humour in it especially from Chris O'Dowd, good effects for the budget and not a bad story considering its background and how it came about. Plus it seems to kind of explain a bit more of how the original Cloverfield movie came about.
Apparently the next Cloverfield installment is entitled Overlord or at least it is listed as that at the moment and at the time of me writing this it is already completed. Lets hope it is more of the original Cloverfield, without the found footage theme and with a lot more Monster/Alien action. :)
