Let's be realistic.

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

I enjoyed this film. The casting and acting was pretty good, though the whole earth story arc around Michael was disconnected and felt like it was tacked on to try and link some other plot items together (though I thought his acting was good). The whole Cloverfield thing passed me by, and watching this stand alone I thought the last few seconds of the movie were just utterly silly, but I understand now why it was "shoehorned" in. Jensen's character seemed really "thin", and her motivations seemed pretty obvious right from her introduction into the story line. Her "twist" wasn't really very much of a twist at all. However, none of this should take away that it was a fun, stand-alone sci-fi watch. On a final note, it seems a bit of a shame that there are a great many reviews for this film on IMDB that suggest that anyone who doesn't like this film is stupid or a troll. Movies are art, art is subjective. Just because someone has a different view from you doesn't make them dumb. If everyone thought the same, what would be the point of ratings, the point of reviews?

The last half hour of the movie I just wanted the main character Hamilton to effing die. Her alltime stupidity wasn't bearable anymore, as well as that constant crying just jumped my nerves. Biggest waste of time.

There is nothing special about this movie. It is almost a copy of every space movie. The idea is a bit complicated and this dis not help the movie at all.

Cloverfield was fine. The "sequel" was really dull and kinda totally unrelated to the original. So, here we have the second "sequel" and it's equally silly. (Seriously, was it that hard to generate sequels related to the original?)If you care to enjoy this film, even as a badfilm worthy of a night of cheap beer, you absolutely must skip past the first 20 minutes. It is here where they set everything up, and it's so ridiculous that it makes watching the rest of the film difficult. The premise has to do with the Earth "running out of energy", so we send a bunch of crazed scientists to space to perform some vague experiment that is likely to rip open the space/time continuum; which (oh no, spoiler!) it does. From here on out, I kept scratching my head and saying to myself things like "well, if they didn't send these looneys up there, things might be fine" and "wait, so all the other issues on Earth weren't enough concern? it took a vague energy crisis to make them launch these clowns into space?" Et cetera. And if you're still watching, you have to be drinking something. The dialog and the characters are just crap. No beating around the bush here! It's a decent looking SciFi with absolutely nothing going for it except it's name... Avoid.