Predictable and cliché, worst dialogue but watchable....

Rating: 5/10 (15 February 2019)

This movie was OK, but certainly did not live up to the hype.
Bird Box wasn't bad because it has unanswered questions. A lot of movies leave us with thousand unanswered questions. I'm okay with not having answers but this movie is bad because it has nothing to offer us.
Even without any answers, there still could have been scary or shocking moments, action, character development... something.
It's full of clichés like searching for provisions, dealing with conflicts within the group, and watching fellow group members die. Nothing new.
There are no interesting characters. Each and everyone of them is so cliché, smart superhero, selfish white guy, pregnant blonde, black geek and already dead old lady. I hated them all. I mean come one people, really?
After an hour into the movie, it's five years later, we still have no idea about anything regarding the entities and their origin, nature, aim. Nothing.
The group now consists of only Bullock, the two children and the protector and only proves us how unnecessary and stupid the presence of all the other characters were, because we have known since the opening of the film, that Bullock will live, and all we're doing at this point is watching to see how everyone else dies a somewhat slapstick horror comedic sort of way.
The worst part of this movie was probably the dull, cheesy and cliché
dialogue. It definitely is the worst part of the making.
To balance it out. Bird Box is not entirely a bad movie. It is well shot and has decent cinematography.
The scenes where Bullock must scold her children on the boat under the safety of a blanket are by far my favorit scenes. The little girl by the way delivers really natural and emotional performances.
Another good scene in Bird Box was when the initial survivors ran out of food and had to make a trip to the grocery store.
These scenes pretty much sums up all the originality in this movie.
I wouldn't necessarily call this a waste of time. The story is actually quite interesting, but no one managed to put a well-packed plot, quality performances and a good dialogue together to make Bird Box one of the best movies of 2018. It's watchable but not necassary.
5/10.