I was skimming a Tor article on this latest Cloverfield, skimming because I haven’t seen the actual thing yet:
https://www.tor.com/2018/02/06/the-cloverfield-paradox-movie-review-cloververse-franchise/
There’s a line at the bottom that caught my attention.
populated by cardboard characters who are merely the victims of greater forces
…You mean as it happens in reality?
But no one seems to have liked this movie, so maybe the article still has a point.
EDIT: I’ve seen the movie now, it’s awful. But I still can’t see how “characters victims of greater forces” is a valid criticism. The cardboard part is true, but the totality of the movie is cardboard. The concept itself has a few small aspects that are interesting, but it’s all savagely sacrificed to the altar of Hollywood machine writing. At its best the movie is a truly bad and clumsy imitation of old sci-fi movies that do everything much better, including special effects.
I was really hoping to see “greater forces” at play, but there’s nothing of that sort. Even that aspect was disappointing.
