I'd Rather See the Entity

Rating: 3/10 (11 March 2019)

Starring Sandra Bullock as a soon to be mother, Bird Box centers around a chaotic series of events caused by the presence of a malicious entity. If you see the entity, you kill yourself. Simple enough, yet not really. For some reason, every character in the film has a nervous breakdown when the entity is present, when in reality, all they have to do is not open their eyes. Nevertheless, every character in the film reacts in this over the top manner when they have to set foot outside their place of shelter. As you can probably tell, I was not the biggest fan of this film. While the concept is intriguing and some of the performances are fine, particularly from Danielle MacDonald and B.D. Wong, the film succumbs to the unfortunately typical issues you can almost expect with any bad horror film. There are about a million safer possibilities alternative to the decisions the characters make, the entity is not scary, and Sandra Bullock's character I found to be especially unlikeable and cowardly. Towards the end of the film, she makes a decision that reflects poorly on her and on the film as a whole. This character defining decision was the cherry on the sundae of my reasons for disliking this film. There are much better survival horror films out there, including 2018's A Quiet Place, that I would recommend seeing over this film.