...I found the movie to fizzle.
I like the cast (Zhang Ziyi!), I like the sets, I like the premise -- but man did they not push things far enough.
It was setting itself up to be an
Event Horizon simulacrum with bits of both Michael Crichton's
Sphere and John Carpenter's
The Thing thrown in for good measure. What a combo! What shoes to fill!
Which ultimately
The Cloverfield Paradox didn't do. Just didn't push the body horror far enough and didn't push the existential/dimensional horror far enough. Too bad, could have really set a new bar for space horror with this one.
Also Chris O'Dowd is still a treasure.
#mancrush