Overhyped

Rating: 4/10 (29 March 2019)

**I thought I posted this review months ago but for some reason it's not on my page. I'm not sure if it was deleted or if my submission just never went through or if my internet was bad or whatever. Here it is again**
Bird Box is really overhyped. I feel like the film was just very underwritten. I get that the monsters were never going to be seen and that's fine, but a lot of the other stuff just seems lazy. What happened to the two people who stole the car? Why was John Malkovich so forgiving to the woman who caused his wife's death? Why were some people brought to suicide but others enlightened or whatever? The script said that like those people had schizophrenia or something, but a lot of people were enlightened. Is half of the population schizophrenic in this film's universe? Because in real life nowhere near that many people would be alive. And are you really telling me Sandra Bullock and the buff black guy lived in total peace for five years before people came to their house? The big question I had is WHAT WERE THE THINGS? Were they monsters? Aliens? Demons? A military experiment gone wrong? Something in the air? Multidemensional beings? The funny guy from Get Out briefly hints that they may be some sort of Biblical demonic entity, but he's a fat slob who bumbles over his own two feet and is constantly being dumb so are we supposed to take his theory seriously? The rest of the movie is okay I guess but I don't really think the whole aspect was done well. There are a few good seens but there are tons of better and more logical "a few years after the world has ended and we're the only ones left" kind of movies, like A Quiet Place, It Comes At Night, I Am Legend, and Oblivion to name a few. Placing half of the movie on day one and then cutting ahead five years for the second half was a bad move, either pick one or the other.