I wish I had a blindfold on while watching this piece of $@#%...

Rating: 4/10 (19 September 2019)

I haven't watched many Netflix Original films. However after they shoved Bird Box down my throat on the Netflix homepage for weeks, and they made that "45 million accounts" claim (is that good?), I decided to see what all the hype was about. If this film is any indication of the quality of Netflix Originals as a whole, then holy @#$% am I glad I've steered clear of them.
Bird Box is based on the 2014 novel of the same name. I'm sure it's a lovely novel, but this movie is hot trash. The premise is that there are some demon spirit appearing all over the world that cause people to commit suicide when they look at them. All hell breaks loose in a matter of minutes and a handful of survivors manage to barricade themselves in a house. From here the story drags on between this past event and the present day where our protagonist Malorie, played by Sandra Bullock, is trying to get to a safe haven with her kids. The gimmick is that they have to wear blindfolds so they don't accidentally see a demon and kill themselves.
Opposite Sandy is Trevante Rhodes as her love interest Tom. The age difference is glaring since Sandy is well into her 50s and Trevante hasn't even hit 30 yet. To make it even less believable, Malorie is pregnant. As all the other surviving housemates inevitably fall, poor Tom gets stuck with this stern-looking old white woman because she ends up being the only one left. Kudos to him for making the best of a bad situation, because I would rather have gone outside and looked at the demons than deal with that @#$%. John Malkovich plays Douglas, a man who is perpetually upset and likes to yell a lot. Machine Gun Kelly also makes an appearance as a useless piece of %$#@ that nobody wants around, which is fitting.
The most frustrating thing is that it's never explained why the demons drive people to suicide. There is a meager attempt to make sense of it in the beginning of the film when Lydia, played by Rebecca Pidgeon, starts talking to her dead mother after looking at the demons and then proceeds to go sit in a burning car. I'm not sure what exactly we're supposed to infer from this, but I am sure that I don't care.
To make it even more complicated, there is a subset of the population who can look at the demons and not kill themselves. These people essentially become disciples for the demons and attempt to make others look at them. There is probably some subtext here that I'm missing, but I just don't care enough to try and uncover it. My only takeaway is that I wish I had a blindfold on while watching this piece of @#$%.