Garbage

Rating: 1/10 (17 February 2019)

Boy, this has got to be the dumbest movie I have seen all week. Maybe all month. After suffering through the silly negative reviews recently of an average sci fi film, IO, I may return to that low budget Indie film and up my star rating just to balance things out with Bird Box, since we cannot issue negative stars. The premise, even with the greatest suspension of disbelief, was lame: looking at aliens made everyone go mad. So Sandra Bullock spent the whole movie stumbling around blindfolded and yelling at two little kids to keep their blindfolds on. only to find her way to a safe place, a school for the blind (duh). I wonder if American Humane (originally founded to protect children AND animals) was alerted to this child abuse on set. At least IO had some semi intelligent dialogue, although it was a fairly pokey film, but no gun play, machete slashings, scissors stabbings (John Malkovich got it that way!), squishing heads with cars, stepping into burning cars, jumping in front of speeding trucks, all of which and more pervade this waste of time, Bird Box.