Good but not great as A Quiet Place

Rating: 3/10 (2 January 2019)

I honestly don't know what I expected from this movie in the first place. The movie was the most intense and fun near the end of the movie when they were on the river. But the first half of the movie was just a boring mess. The ending was very weak and didn't answer the many questions we had about the unseen force leading people to suicide. They literally just enter a house for the blind where Malorie finally figures out real names for her children other than just "Boy" and "Girl" then the credits roll. A Quiet Place was a real thriller and was way better than this movie, let me explain.
1) In A Quiet Place, we know what the creatures are and we find out how the characters can defeat them. 2) A Quiet Place is an "on the edge of your seat" kind of thriller/horror, while Bird Box is just a "Wow, I wonder how this character will gruesomely die" kind of movie. 3) Bird Box has a greater focus on the R-rated deaths and language instead of the story and suspense. A Quiet Place strays away from the focus on how to make this movie for it's designated target audience and really focuses on how to make the story suspenseful and scary.
If you are a thriller fan looking for a great suspenseful thriller on Netflix, Bird Box is not the movie for you. You can save 2 hours of your time watching A Quiet Place or another good movie.