I'm not sure what my reaction to this movie would have been had we gotten three full trailers, a series of posters, and it was released in theaters. Had we gotten all of that, and I went out and paid $10 for a ticket, and I saw the exact same movie I just watched on Netflix, I think I would have liked it significantly less. While it has a strong cast and quality looking effects, The Cloverfield Paradox does not work as a theatrically released film. You do watch Netflix original movies with a different lens; you don't have as high expectations for it as you would for a theatrically released movie. So that's probably why I had more fun with Cloverfield Paradox. It is not a great movie. It has very shallow characters, a loosely defined plot, and many question marks surrounding it, but I was very rarely not entertained while watching it...