Falls Short

Rating: 5/10 (5 February 2019)

This movie is about a mother (Sandra Bullock) and her experience during an apocalyptic event wherein people commit suicide when they see an entity or being with their own two eyes, causing survivors to just put on blind folds to prevent being victimized by this entity.
The Good:
I think that the movie delivered its share of thrill. The beginning scene was excellent in that it set the stakes for their perilous journey, as well as introduce our main character and what kind of person she is.
Though I'm not a big fan of this format (alternating between real time and flashbacks) since it removes some of the thrill from the events in the house, it was done well enough and it made sense as to keep the pace going near the end.
The focus given to the relationships of the people inside the house was also a good thing about the movie though some characters may have been a bit one-dimensional. I also enjoyed seeing the growth of Sandra Bullock's character. Through the threat of losing her two children, she was able to move past her hesitations about being a mother and show them that deep inside she actually cares for them. Exceptional acting by Sandra Bullock, by the way.
The Bad:
I just had so many questions about the apocalypse that they were experiencing that I hoped would get answered later on in the movie but never were answered. The danger and the threat of death was there but I wish I just knew more about what they were up against. What started these events? What were these entities? Why were a certain subset of the population seemingly immune to the effects of these entities? I know that sometimes, some questions have no answers, but I think a good movie should leave you with less unanswered questions than you started with. A Quiet Place was able to do that for me despite the mystery surrounding the aliens. I think this is because of the sufficient exposition given to the aliens at the beginning of the movie. Bird Box differs in that it never reveals anything certain about these entities so they could practically do anything with them narratively. The ambiguousness of Bird Box's unseen antagonists is one of the movie's major weak points.
Another one is the ending. The ending was so predictable in that halfway through watching the movie, I already could tell where they were going with this and jokingly blurted it out and surprise surprise, they really went with that ending.