Bird box rating1/23/2024 The scene when the dogs didn't wake up when Sebastian was 'cutting the cords' was not plausible at all. Then staying with the group after finding out that they were 'good people' and Anna still not being around solidified my suspicions. I realized something was off with Sebastian when he told Anna to hide when meeting the first group and all of a sudden she was just gone. Somewhere, in a Netflix boardroom, people with expensive habits are very pleased with themselves. The dual-language Spanish setting could have worked well, but they do absolutely nothing with it. The score is shockingly bad, ever-present and thematically stagnant throughout the entire runtime. ![]() The sci-fi elements are completely ignored, so if you've seen the first one, there's nothing new here. The director does not know what these things are. It's Plot Number 1 from the Big Book of Plots - a bunch of generic humans stumble through derivative scenes until one of them gets yeeted in a flourish of Adobe After Effects plugins. He is escorting a kid through the post-apocalyptic streetssjc#'gch. Mario Casas, a good actor, plays a boring man who is boring. It's a basic retread, with all the same logical brain-hurts of the first movie, only brain-hurtier. But Georgina Campbell is in this one and I thought she might bring something fresh to the screen. ![]() The first movie was insultingly stupid filler, made watchable by Sandy Bullock. But, because you can't care for the lead and find him dislikable, it kind of kills the movie journey. They execute it well, the acting is pretty good from everyone. Basically, it's the story that lets this film down. Thus by the end I stayed with it just to cross the finish line but no because I cared at all about the characters. The rest of the movie doesn't make of for the lack of a lead and a story you can relate to. But, what is essential is a lead that we can relate to, that we feel aligned with on his journey, and that person doesn't really emerge until the very end of the movie. However, it doesn't explain what the creatures are, where they're from, or how they're doing any of this - which is ok, it's not essential. It also reveals more about why some people appear crazy and intent on harming others and getting them to see the creatures and die. The movie potters on and provides slightly more reveals demonstrating a link between whatever the creatures are, and some humans that see them. As a result you can empathise with him or feel anything for him other than hoping he dies soon. On the downside, the lead character is very unlikeable by nature of his choices in the first 2/3rds of the movie. Bird Box '1' wasn't amazing, but it was ok. ![]() But, it had enough in it that gave a sense of tension and intrigue to draw you in and keep you with it. You never found out what the 'creatures' were. In A Quiet Place, making the slightest of sounds would attract murderous monsters, and in Bird Box, the tiniest glimmer of vision would compel a person to kill themselves, usually in very gory fashion.For clarity, I liked the first Bird Box movie. Directed by Sussanne Bier, Bird Box was coincidentally released in the same year as John Krasinski’s the first A Quiet Place - both post-apocalyptic thrillers in which the last remnants of humanity were struggling to fend off mysterious aliens that preyed on our senses. Her presence alone transformed what would have been a middling B-movie into a genuinely thrilling, and surprisingly heartfelt experience. Released in 2018, Bird Box became Netflix’s biggest original hit to that point, and proved that Sandra Bullock was quietly one of the world’s last remaining movie stars. But in the real world, he’s being wasted as the fourth lead in a spinoff to a Netflix film that is best remembered for inspiring dumb TikTokers to risk their lives for some temporary online clout. In an alternate world - a just world - Diego Calva would be an Oscar-nominated actor and his breakout film, Babylon, would (correctly) be regarded as a modern masterpiece.
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