Epitomizing Hollywood's Slide To Cinematic Garbage

Rating: 2/10 (28 December 2018)

The (former?) A-list actors in this move, including Sandra Bullock, actually just make the movie more pathetic with their simplistic single dimensional characters. That they signed on to this project is baffling.
The script could have been made feasible and the movie maybe interesting if the globally marauding killer 'entities' were somewhat realistic, perhaps a little explainable through science and maybe had a little bit of a back story. Instead, our dopey writers give us some ridiculous magic nebulous invisible evil creatures/ghosts/alien/somethings that somehow turn rational humans into delirious suicidal psychopaths if a person merely glances in their direction. Thanks to leading edge Hollywood magic (swirling vortex of leaves) we can tell where the things happen to be (accompanied by some vortex'y evil wind sounds, of course). These magic entities however, cannot, for some inexplicable reason, go indoors, even though they appear to have come from another dimension or outer space or perhaps from across the river Hades (who knows!). So the few surviving humans can stay indoors (with window shades closed) and be impervious to the nefarious nebulosities. Well, until they must go outside to search for food. But the writers needed something more, something to bring it into line with the ever-popular Zombie/Vampire/Possession genres. A few of the humans don't self-annihilate but instead are infected and roam the landscape looking for survivors... so they can force survivors to look at the magic creatures.. and either die or if they are lucky, join them. Ugh. Children could come up with better more plausible scripts.
Along with the huge slide in the quality of Hollywood cinema, goes the quality of the viewer. Perhaps a nice break from the endless assault of superhero movies. But the vicious cycle of lowering the bar to try and find the beefiest cross-section of paying customers is killing modern cinema faster than a planet filled with ineffable mystery entities causing everyone to off themselves.
If you have any self-respect, stay away from this trash and seek out & support good cinema. It's going extinct.
And to the current crop of pandering Hollywood producers, directors, script writers etc... please find one of these mystery entities and look at them. Thanks in advance!
BAH