My Thoughts on Bird Box

Rating: 7/10 (27 December 2018)

Firstly, it's a misleading title. But the title doesn't make a film good or bad, it's just a title. But it's like calling Shrek...Blue Flower, Red Thorns. Yes they are both in the movie, but barely have anything to do with the plot. But anyway, Bird Box is a conflicting movie. It's does things right, but gets things wrong too, and I'm not sure if the positives outweigh the negatives. First I'm going to mention the elephant 🐘 in the room, it's very similar to A Quiet Place, but instead of noise being a factor, it has sight as a factor. While I do like the idea, even if it's pretty basic just like A Quiet Place, it all comes down to execution. And that's were things get muddy. The film became very predictable right from the beginning and I can see the outcome of a solution before it even happens. The film is very slow as well, making feel longer than it is, my partner I was watching went to the restroom and to my surprise it was only on for 1 hour and 11 minutes, I felt it was at least 2. So what I'm saying is, the pacing was off, and it didn't do a good job at holding my suspense like A Quiet Place where I was on the edge of my seat due to John Krasinski's direction. Susanne Bier is the director her, and as a seemingly first timer, she did a descent job, just needs to work on her pacing. Sandra Bullock was fabulous as always and pretty caries the entire film on her back, and she is the reason this film gets a 7 from me. I enjoyed John Malkovich in this but wasn't in the film for long which I was disappointed about. A surprise appearance by both BD Wong (Jurassic Park) and Machine Gun Kelly but they were cameos mainly. The story itself had potential, I like the idea of having no sight to solve problems but that can result in writing issues and it shows at times. However, the one thing this film has that's better than A Quiet Place is the ending. It actually had a complete ending. Overall, it is a film with both strengths and weaknesses, and to me the positives slightly outdoes the negatives having mainly to do with Sandra Bullock. If you like a movies that is not as suspenseful as A Quiet Place, this is it. For me, I will never see this again, but I am glad I can say I watched a film called Bird Box, it's just a silly title, but it's a good silly.