A bit lazy

Rating: 5/10 (12 January 2019)

"Bird Box" tells the story of a mother who has to save her two children by blindly leading them to a safe space after a mysterious force makes people lose their mind and kill themselves through eye-contact.
I honestly don't get why this is such a big hit. It is, to be fair, absolutely not my genre but I really find this movie a bit lazy. Not only is it hard to emphasize with a woman so harsh even under the given conditions but more important, major parts of the plot never actually get explained. Throughout all of the scrren time people are being terrorized and killed by a force that stays totally anonymous until the end. There isn't even the slightest try to explain what's behinf it or what happened. I'm not a big fan of demons and evil spirits but it's even worse when nobody even tries to make sense of it. Otherwise the plot is okay, it doesn't have huge lengths but neither does it have true peaks.
All in all I'm maybe not the best person reviewing this film regarding my personal taste but I do think that it is fair to expect a bit more than is delivered by this movie. I've heard that it's supposed to be some kind of allegory to the parent-child relations nowaday, which is something, but I think I would have prefered a different approach.