Can't help but feel like we've seen this all before......

Rating: 5/10 (28 December 2018)

Can't help but feel like we've seen this all before......oh wait, we have 'A Quiet Place - 2018' and 'The Happening - 2008'. And both were done better. I had high hopes for Bird Box but I believe I succumbed to all the hype surrounding its release. The first 1/3 of the movie was decent but it quickly went flat after that. Sandra Bullock did a good job with what she had to work with but some of the selections of supporting cast are questionable. The absence of any hint of resolution to the plot is both confusing and frustrating. So yes, this movie leaves you hanging at the end and in a BIG way. In typical Hollywood fashion, all the diversity and inclusiveness boxes get checked with little regard as to how or even if they contribute to the overall script. Keeping with the Hollywood agenda, they manage to work in the old and tired narrative that all white men are self-serving and bad while people of color and women are virtuous and good. Of the 5 villains in the movie, all are white and 4 are men. It proves once again that the movies coming out of Hollywood now, regardless of which studio releases them, are all written from within the Hollywood liberal, utopian, fantasy world.