- Awesome Music: Once again, Bear McCreary's fantastic score is very pleasing to the ears.
- Contested Sequel: Reception to this film is much more mixed than either of its predecessors, but there's a split with regard to whether or not the movie is still good in spite of that.
- Cliché Storm: One of the major complaints is how derivative this film is of several other space set sci-fi/horror movies. There's the main character having a connection to family, the captain that dies (specifically in a Heroic Sacrifice), the sudden appearance of a character that turns out to be untrustworthy and murderous, the intercutting between the main situation and a character on earth, even a simple scene like Volkov having an alien parasite instead him and looking at himself in a mirror, observing something moving his eye is strikingly similar to a scene from Prometheus with Charlie doing the same basic thing.
- Funny Moments: Just about everything that has to do with Mundy's arm. Mixed with Nightmare Fuel.
- Fandom Rivalry: Altered Carbon fans weren't happy at this film and its audacious release strategy stealing all the thunder from the major blockbuster sci-fi series Netflix released at the exact same time.
- Hilarious in Hindsight: Prior to the release of Paradox, the Godzilla franchise had been trying to outdo itself to make bigger monsters, with Legendary making their Godzilla in 2014 the "biggest yet", only to be topped out by Toho's Shin Godzilla in 2016, who is then outdone in turn by Godzilla Earth from the Netflix anime Planet of the Monsters in 2017. And now we have the mile-high adult Clover.
- Just Here for Godzilla: Despite the movie's dubious reception from critics and fans, most will agree that the movie is worth watching just to see the Cloverfield Monster make its long-awaited return.
- Narm: While intended to be one of the things hinting the ship becoming an Eldritch Location, the sight of Mundy's arm crawling around the ship on its own is somewhat silly to behold. Some critics even compared it to Thing from The Addams Family.
- Moral Event Horizon: If Jensen didn't cross it by shooting Monk in her attempt to save her planet by stealing the Shephard, then she definitely did by emotionally manipulating Ava by playing videos with her kids to get her to relent to her, leave Schmidt to die, and fail her own dimension.
- One-Scene Wonder: The mother of the monster from the original Cloverfield appearing out of the clouds in the final shot of the film.
- Shocking Moments:
- The fact that Netflix decided to premiere the movie directly after the Superbowl is this AND a Moment of Awesome for them.
- THE ENDING. After 10 long years, the monster (or at least the mother of Clover) itself finally returns. And it's huge. By that, we mean large enough to reach above the clouds in the sky.
- Tear Jerker:
- "Tell them not to come back. Tell them not to come back! TELL THEM NOT TO COME BACK! Do you hear me? TELL THEM NOT TO COME BACK!!!"
- Each death of the crew.
- It's implied that Tam and Schmidt are dating, or at least very close. Schmidt is forced to watch helplessly as the room Tam is in is flooded, unable to open the door to get her out, and the water pressure is enough it breaks the hull. The water is instantly frozen solid and Tam dies.
- The Woobie: Everyone on the Cloverfield Space Station (especially Volkov) and pretty much everyone on Earth.
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