A Blind Place

Rating: 8/10 (1 January 2019)

Can this be? Two movies in the same year that are so similar that it cannot be ignored.
A Quiet Place and Bird Box are just too much alike. Female leads, pregnant, apocalyptic, one having to learn to move silently the other having to learn to move blindly, kids that make everything a bit more challenging, both amazing. And that's what needs to be stressed: they were both excellent movies.
Bird Box, like A Quiet Place, starts immediately with a tense situation. Something has occurred that is causing people to commit suicide (think "The Happening" but better). Pretty quickly they figure out that seeing these entities is what triggers the self sacrifices. The only way to survive is to not look at the beings. That is a sucky situation.
I think Sandra Bullock and John Malkovich's characters and performances were great. They really enhanced the movie-a movie that didn't need much enhancing it was so intense already. This is a definite edge-of-your-seat, question-every-move type movie. If you're like me you will be yelling at the screen, giving unsolicited advice and generally trying to dictate the very movie from your couch. I was completely drawn in and fully vested. Good stuff.