Not a sci fi movie

Rating: 8/10 (18 January 2019)

Bird Box is a suspense movie. The film kept me on the edge of my seat hooking me in with the suspense of an unknown and unseeable danger.
The fear and suspense comes from the unknown. I would not appreciate yet another Alien action sci-fi movie, or a gory horror movie. There are plenty of those and they usually aren't that great.
This film is well directed and we'll acted. You can feel the fear of the characters. If the entity was well explained and you knew exactly it's strengths abilities and weaknesses then that takes away from the fear and suspense. Once you take away the unknown, it usually forces the story into an action film where the characters attempt to defeat the entity, and I'm too interested in another of those.
As for the ending, it showed the development of Malorie from someone who thought she wouldn't even like her child as her father didn't love her, into a mother who would die for her children and take any risk to protect them.
True, I'm still curious of what the entities are, but to be honest, I'd bet I'd be disappointed if I was told the answer. The entities are just the apocalypitic background to the story of Malories unusual growth into motherhood. I'm totally ok with that rather small development in an apocalypitic world as the ride was so compelling. I enjoyed it while it lasted.
2 points are taken off for loopholes in the story, e.g. Tom being super buff after 5 years of surviving, failure to know how to use walking sticks after 5 years of scavenging blindfolded, why the heck is a school for the blind in the middle of a rainforest only accessible by rapids...
For all it's flaws 8 out of 10 was prob generous, but I truly enjoyed the 1.5 hours watching it, and that's all that really matters.