It's like it wanted to have a theme so badly

Rating: 5/10 (31 December 2018)

Bird Box is definitely a quality film- there's some good acting in it, decent dialogue, and an interesting method of narrative. But at the end of the day, it's just got nothing to offer.
Plot- A pregnant woman faces an apocalyptic world where anyone who looks outside dies by hallucinating and killing themselves. Birds can sense when the "entity" or whatever is near. The burning hot issue for me was that the film never once explains why this happens, as well as why some people can see and just want to watch others kill themselves. Not once. It just sort of ends hoping that you forgot about the whole supernatural element of the film. And i think for that reason, the same plot could have been used with a different protagonist, maybe one who finds the answer.
Writing- Dialogue isn't unbearable, but I will say that some scenes feel way to stagnant. Characters don't quite have their own personality, such as the first scene where we have 3 women talking to each other, all using the same snarky tone, all making back to back wise cracks. It was an awkward scene that shows the importance of distinguishing a character on screen. No one wants to see multiple characters with the same personality.
Characters/Acting- As said before, the characters are relatively stagnant, aside Bullock, her live interest, and an antagonist they unintentionally meet. Acting was good aside MGK who is just way too much like him real self. Did the producers ask the writer "hey can you just throw in a rap star and have him be some sort of doctor in the film that complains the whole time?"
Quality- Well shot and edited, a very good aspect of the film actually. The music isn't bad at all. The style of the story being inthe past and present was nice.
Overall this movie is nothing to go nuts for. I only watched it because of the hype, and I cannot see why there was any to begin with. Yes it starts right away, gets you interested, feels intense. But once we get to the last third of the film, all of it drops and we starve for reasoning. If you can watch a movie that makes you curious for its entirety and doesnt even try to hint at an explanation, feast your eyes. Other wise you'll be like me, waiting at the last 10 minutes of runtime for your mind to be blown, only to get that waste-of-my-time stomach ache.