Nothing special

Rating: 6/10 (3 February 2019)

I watched this movie with my girlfriend the other day. What's better than a good horrormovie we thought? Since Birdbox was getting a lot of buzz and it was on Netflix, naturally we decided to watch it. Now I had to really strengthen myself to not start talking about all the flaws that I saw (talking about an awkward date).
On first notice I would say that this movie is a mix of "A Quiet Place" and "The Happening". The first one is actually a really good thriller, the second one...yeah not so much, so it was pretty weird. Is it as good as all the Facebook messages were saying which we kept seeing the past months? No, definitely not. Is it one of the worst horrormovies ever made? No. It's actually a perfect movie if you are with a bunch of friends, or your girlfriend, and you just want to have an easy-going thrillride.
If your movie starts with a monologue of a seriously overacting Sandra Bullock, I was holding my breath because I was preparing myself for 2 hours of just plain bad stuff. At the end, it actually wasn't as bad as I presumed.
The good stuff: The idea of being blindfolded the entire time is a good idea, although it does feel like a copy of "A Quiet Place", but just a little bit different if you know what I'm saying. The acting is fine, not great, just fine. There's nothing really memorable about the techniques used, it's all pretty standard, not bad, just basic. There are some pretty good intense scenes near the end of the film that did surprise me a little bit, but since the movie is 2 hours long, 3 good scenes isn't really enough.
That's what my main issue is with the movie: It's just so basic. There's nothing memorable about it. The plot is something we've all seen before, just remixed a little bit. The characters are all basic and stereotypical. One character, who gratefully isn't in the movie that much, was really unbearingly annoying (SPOILER: This girl's first line is: "I'm a cop!" Then 5 minutes later she has sex with some random junkie we don't even know and then 15 minutes later she drives off with that junkie together with all of the food our main characters had gathered. Yeah nice cop you are.). The climax isn't really a climax, it at least doesn't feel like it, it feels more like a quick action scene that ends within 1 minute. The movie also feels a little bit too long, once we get the point and we are all caught up, the movie reaches it's final destination, but then it decides to add a whole other "scary" scene, and it really felt unnecessary.
Bird Box is not a great film, I would even doubt to say that it's a good film. It's the definition of a standard, basic thriller with nothing special about it, that's just good for having a fun time with your friends and some beer.
I'm giving it a well-deserved 6/10