Don't look now.

Rating: 1/10 (29 December 2018)

Well, "Bird Box" was one big disappointment due to the hype surrounding it. Like most "original" movies thrown to the public via Netflix, it was a complete waste of two plus hours and never lived up to the word of mouth that it was "terrifying". Perhaps in some other dimension this flick is scary, but not this one. Let's sort out the weak excuses here by the ten star reviewers, OK?
"Bird Box" is another end of the world stories, there are many to choose from. BB's closest new cousin is "A Quiet Place" replacing not making noise with not looking at the whatever it is causing all the trouble. Both are based on books, with "A Quiet Place" getting the nod for getting to the public first. It in itself wasn't an original idea, based on a book called "The Silence" that came out some years ago. In that story, nasty little reptile-birds were released from a hidden ecosystem and devastated humans by their sensitive hearing. This idea appeared in the Fifties in the book "Day of the Triffids". At least in both those books we were allowed to see the problem, but in "Bird Box" we're expected to believe a woman with two children can overcome major physical trauma to reach a safe place that probably isn't so safe. Roll credits.
No real explanation is given for the whatever it is that causes immediate suicide in reasonable people. We never really "see" it, other than the not so special effects that indicate the whatever is adept at moving bushes in a forest. People invest in a story, so naturally they're unhappy when they don't get any bang for their buck. Myself, I went to sleep about 45 minutes into this silly movie and woke up about ten minutes before the end. I was better off asleep.
Silly, non-plausible, badly directed, and yet another TV outing featuring Sarah Paulson. She's great in AHS but does she need to be in everything? Yawn.