Photo: Scott Garfield / Netflix This review contains minor spoilers for The Cloverfield Paradox. Congratulations to Netflix and Bad Robot for taking a so-so genre sequel and turning it into a surprise television EVENT that had nerds and those of us tasked to cover their buying habits (the main job of criticism these days, it seems) staying up past midnight EST for fear of missing something big. There was nothing eventful about the movie itself, The Cloverfield Paradox, apart from at times recalling the better sci-fi thriller Event Horizon, but it did have an entertaining first hour and an excellent international cast. Its chief problem was an abrupt shift in emphasis, whereby what had been the story of a scientific conundrum (paradox, if you will) turned into yet another stop-the-stalking-killer movie. Solving the scientific problem ended up a relatively simple task, at least in this installment. For the ongoing saga, there are still some colossal issues. A few words about that … [Read more...] about Has Some Colossal Issues