More Bird Brain than Box

Rating: 3/10 (5 January 2019)

I have been left disappointed over Christmas with some of the so called high profile series or Netflix top of the tree picks. Bird Box is a "End of the World" type thing without the Zombies or Aliens or Virus or Meteors or anything else visible that usually wipes us out. In fact as well as the invisible there isn't a lot great about what is visible. There is no Horror in something that you cant see or ever do see. People bumping around in blindfolds to protect themselves from something that you can't see especially if your the audience is new and novel and does not work. Having the perspective of the actor looking at the inside of a blindfold is nothing short of boring. I tended not to care about any of the survivors and most were quite unlikeable and carboard typie figures. The scene were they drive to the supermarket in a blacked out car and use the satnav to get there is laughable and obviously GPS has survived the worlds demise. Why this film incorporates a Bird Box is any ones guess, Hamster cage would have been just as fitting but I suppose the hamster cage would have sank in the rivers rapids,were as the Birdy Box never and the three little birds survived to tweet another day.......sadly. I give 3 stars for film in honour to the 3 little birds who showed the rest of the cast how to act