A Long Movie with Few Explanations & No Real Closure

Rating: 3/10 (12 November 2019)

I understand this was a big deal for Netflix to have the streaming rights for this movie. With big name stars like Sandra Bullock and John Malkovich, you'd expect it to be a mega-hit. However the film falls flat in several respects in my humble opinion. The supposed invisible "creatures" that drive people insane (to immediate suicide) are never given a background or even explained. Actually a LOT of things are not explained. Things like how a few certain people could see the creatures and somehow do their bidding and yet act "normal" at times? Why the invisible creatures sometimes appeared as swirling leaves 🍁 in the wind 💨? How did the creatures bend trees 🌲 but weren't able to enter buildings? How does a blindfolded woman with two blindfolded 5 year-old children manage to survive the incredible rapids of a river after crashing their boat, being submerged, smashed against rocks, somehow find each other (without sight) and then no one has any broken bones or hardly any scratches? Just how were the creatures able to mimic the voices (and have the intelligence) of people dearest to their intended victims? And finally, once Bullock had reached the blind school 🏫, how long did she and her two kids hope to hold out there till one day they accidentally had a glimpse at death?!? There's several other things I won't bother mentioning. Yes, I feel like there's a lot of plot holes 🕳 in this and they definitely stretched it out too long for the material. A lot of people probably won't remember this movie 🎥 after they have watched it. It simply wasn't that much of a horror flick.