A decent post-apocalyptic film...worth a view.

Rating: 7/10 (27 December 2018)

I saw this last night on Netflix and I thought that it had some good moments. The scenes of mass suicides and people killing themselves in very graphic fashion though are a bit much and I wouldn't recommend this for young kids, it had lots of profanity also. Having seen A Quiet Place recently, I would say that the two films do have common elements like alien forces decimating and hunting the human population and young mothers struggling to survive with their children against all odds. At least in A Quiet Place, we get to see that the invaders are hideous, slimy, vicious looking creatures reminiscent of ALIEN but they can lured by sound and be killed with human weapons and that gives humanity hope in that film. In Bird Box, we never get to see what the invaders look like, they never directly harm humans, they make humans see with their own eyes their inner most fear and this drives them to kill themselves in the most horrific ways possible . This makes the creatures/invaders in Bird Box far more invincible and dangerous. Humanity has little hope of survival in that film...how can you kill something that you can kill you the instant you see it.