A Quiet Place
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Dec 21, 2018 · And they do, but “Bird Box” is not your typical horror movie. It’s refreshingly devoid of big action sequences and CGI, relying more on the fear experienced by its characters than actual supernatural interactions. In a sense, it’s a reverse haunted house movie, one in which it’s not the one house that’s haunted but everything ...
Bird Box is a dud. Rated 2/5 Stars • Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/07/24 Full Review Alec B The movie has some effective set pieces, more than I was anticipating actually.
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Dec 13, 2018 · Dec. 13, 2018. The enigmatic title may be “Bird Box,” but in the first flashback of this occasionally riveting sci-fi thriller, the banter between the sisters Malorie (Sandra Bullock) and ...
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Updated: Dec 30, 2018 3:09 am
Posted: Dec 30, 2018 3:05 am
The following is a mostly spoiler-free review of Bird Box, which is now streaming on Netflix.
In a slightly better effort and presentation than most Netflix Original movies, Bird Box stars Sandra Bullock as one of the few survivors of a global "event" that - *sigh* - involves invisible demons instantly causing all who see them to commit suicide. Look, it's all better than the description makes it sound. Though, this gimmick also feels goofy at times, and needlessly convolutes a story that, for all intents and purposes, could be about anything world-ending (zombies, clickers, what have you).
The end result of these supernatural creatures (if you're looking for the film's "hook") is that the characters can't go outside with their eyes open, creating a scenario where Bullock's Malorie has to escort two 5-year-old kids (one is hers and the other an orphan) through the woods blindfolded, surrounded by shrieking chaos. Their lack of visuals makes for a cool visual, and an unsettling survival scenario, but it the movie feels reverse engineered to create this very specific, heightened situation. As if the author - in this case Josh Malerman, who wrote the 2014 book the movie's based on - worked backwards from a cool idea and created "monsters" that could accommodate such an ordeal.
The years they all spend inside a house, where most of the movie takes place, gives us the tried and true Apocalypse Crew. You know the drill. There's the lead (Bullock), the A**hole (Malkovich), the good Man Who Conveniently Doesn't Have a Family (Rhodes), the Old Person, the Naive Mistake Maker, the Coward, and a few expendable wild card/canon fodder types. Nothing breaks the mold here. But the drama holds because the story, essentially, belongs to Bullock's Malorie, as a giant disastrous metaphor that teaches her to love.
Malorie enters the story as a prickly pregnant recluse worried that she won't be able to emotionally bond with her child. Subsequently, the entire world going to hell doesn't help matters as Malorie is thrust into a dire situation where she's, essentially, forced to care for a child she already felt distant toward. It's not subtle messaging, but it works. Especially when children do finally come into the picture and Malorie's now transformed into a cold disciplinarian who echoes her own family's sins of the past/cycle of abuse. It's the strongest element of Bird Box and helps sell the blindfold crucible as the ultimate trust exercise/bonding experience.
Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross provide the sinister score while The Night Manager's Susanne Bier directs with an engrossing earnestness that allows the somewhat silly premise to dissolve into the background so that smaller dramatic moments can resonate. Bird Box would easily fall apart if it lacked Bier, Bullock, and some of the oth...
Bird Box offers a humdrum (and kind of hinky) hook but a solid cast, and it's Sandra Bullock and the ensemble that heap some heft into this standard scorched Earth story. It even features some great actors for a shockingly short amount of time. All in all, it's not great, but it's still better than most Netflix genre films.
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Sandra Bullock stars in, and elevates, an apocalypse drama for Netflix about invisible monsters that wipe out humanity.
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claudio_carvalho 23 December 2018. "Bird Box" is a sci-fi action movie produced by Neflix and like in other films, with many overrated fake reviews in IMDb by hired users or robots promoting the flick. The storyline is the same of "A Quiet Place" as well the lack of explanation who the creatures are. The unbelievable plot, where a man is ...
Dec 14, 2018 · San Francisco Chronicle. Dec 12, 2018. The effort behind Bird Box was to make something better than a standard horror movie, but the result is dull and half-hearted. It’s not serious enough or important enough to transcend the horror genre, but neither is it visceral enough to hold up as a regulation horror movie. Read More.
