Clearly a result of last minute production decisions to shove The Cloverfield name onto a failing script, TCP is a boring, messy, and tonally vacant film. The acting is the best part, but with the tiny set and nonexistant character motivations (outside of Mbatha-Raw's role), much of the cast has little time to make an impact. The rest of the plot is, to put it lightly, dumb, trying to incorporate a mire of underexplained sci-fi mcguffins. Not worth the runtime.