Lack of depth to the story

Rating: 3/10 (27 December 2018)

Let me just say that I'm in no way shape or form a movie critic, I can only give you my personal opinion, which is: this was a horrific movie. Here's why.
I went into this movie with fairly high expectations. I read some great reviews, there's an amazing cast. What could go wrong? Well, quite a bit as it turns out.
Halfway through the movie a feeling of 'ok let's move things along' snuck up on me. I got this feeling that it was time to get some information to move the story forwards. It didn't come, nor did it through the entire film.
In spite of OK acting, which is what you can expect from top names as these, Bird Box lacks any depth to the story and leaves you with a whole bunch of unanswered questions by the end. It explains nothing, just takes you along for a 2 hour scare ride. And 'scare' is being generous, a few ruffling leaves don't really do it for me.
Unanswered questions for me include who were the entities? What did they want? Why could some people walk outside without blindfolds? How did they survive for 5 odd years? What happened to the couple that escaped the house? What's the deal with Gary and his drawings? What about the groups driving around? Why couldn't the oh-so-scary entities enter houses?
Other things are just hard to believe. You expect me to believe that the sanctuary blind school was more than a 2 day travel, yet they could reach each other on that walkie? The entire boat flips, but the bird box somehow makes it through?
And then the ending.. which just left so much to be desired. They somehow make it to this place and bang, that's it. happy days.
Poor plot, very poor depth to the story, poor ending. Bitterly disappointing. 3/10.