The creators of the Cloverfield movies seem to be developing the series in a way akin to going into a bookshop, selecting books from different sections and finding ways to connect the disparate genres with an overarching universe, and so one dimension of this third movie to enjoy is seeing how their intellectual writers' game ends up tying together this scifi set on a space station to an underground abduction thriller and a much earlier found-footage creature feature, but the other dimension - simply enjoying each movie as a standalone - is where these movies - and this movie yet again - fall down because while the universal ties are intriguing, it doesn't take an astrophysicist to see the two dimensions do not co-exist very well, with poor plotting (spaceships that eat arms but then don't, inexplicable magnet troubles and astronauts who one minute don't know what is going on and the next know that flicking a switch reverses dimensional shifts) letting down the grander plans for the series.
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