Confusing plot and subplots in movie that moves too fast
I finished watching "The Cloverfield Paradox" this morning. This third installment of the Cloverfield series leaves me scratching my head and taking an aspirin.
Okay, where to start.
Story - Like most of JJ Abrams work, there are multiple elements, some seemingly pointless and much is left unexplained. The space station certainly seems to have it in for the chief engineer, first slicing off his arm and then using metal tendrils of alloy to grab him. I think MAYBE there was some half-explanation about "being caught between two dimensions in shift" or something nonsensical but nothing else said about WHY the space station seemed to pray on that particular character. Also there was no explanation as to WHY the Chinese operator was nearly drowned and then frozen to death when an airlock failed. Did the ship develop some kind of malevolent sentience? This is just more of JJ Abrams's fingerprints where he creates some elaborate plot and then use cheap, silly gimmicks to cross secondary characters out of your narrative. STUPID. I'll never understand why Abrams is praised so much in Hollywood. His storytelling is awful!
ANOTHER BIG QUESTION - HOW DID THE ARM KNOW WHAT WAS INSIDE THE DEAD RUSSIAN SCIENTIST? HOW DID THE ARM HAVE INTELLIGENCE? WAS ANOTHER ENGINEER IN ANOTHER DIMENSION MANIPULATING THE ARM? NO EXPLANATION FOR THAT EITHER. JUST BIZARRE AND STUPID!
Acting - Passable but not great. I felt sorry for the excellent Daniel Bruhl. He did pretty well with a bad script. The others were just OK.
Ending - So explain this JJ: How come in the original "Cloverfield" there is no mention of Earth being on an energy ration? That version of Earth looks to be in our current timeline but that amazingly huge, technically advanced space stations looks NOTHING like anything that the advanced nations of the world could or would put into space around the planet. That station alone would require a nuclear power source, especially with a gigantic particle accelerator onboard. Most moviegoers aren't rocket scientists but they aren't 3rd Graders either. Hell, not even the pseudo-science makes sense in "The Cloverfield Paradox."
JJ Abrams is a hack. He sold a 5-6 load of BS to people with his island fantasy, ruined Star Trek and hasn't done anything to save Star Wars from sinking. He's not original, borrows ideas from other movies and then throws them into a big mixer of script writing on a story that's a mess.