10 Movies That Cruelly Teased What We REALLY Wanted To See
1. The Cloverfield Paradox Provides A Lazy Final Moment Tie-In
The Cloverfield Paradox is a film that largely disappointed - and one of the major reasons for that is in how it was a Cloverfield 'sequel' that really wasn't a Cloverfield sequel.
Much like its predecessor, 10 Cloverfield Lane, The Cloverfield Paradox is a film that didn't start life as a sequel to Matt Reeves' 2008 Cloverfield. Whereas 10 Cloverfield Lane was adapted from an existing script for a project titled The Cellar, The Cloverfield Paradox became a tweaked version of what was known as The God Particle.
Unlike 10 Cloverfield Lane, though, The Cloverfield Paradox was received negatively by fans and critics alike. The tie-ins to the main Cloverfield movie were ham-fisted and forced, with additional Earth-based scenes shot and added solely as a way to make the picture feel more connected (see: shoehorned) to the original film.
The presumption - and, to be fair, part of the promise of the threequel - was that The Cloverfield Paradox would give us more of a proper glimpse at the monster that caused so much damage and destruction in the first film. Instead, all we got was a final shot look at the creature in a way that very much felt like a 'here's what you could've won' moment.