As they run of out of supplies and realize that they’re going to have to get to a store somehow, distrust grows. But that’s for later in the movie.) A small band of survivors takes shelter, including the irascible Douglas (Malkovich), also-pregnant Olympia (Macdonald), excitable Charlie ( LilRel Howery), and inevitable love interest Tom (Rhodes). Whatever it is causes their eyes to go all psychedelic and they take their own lives. What is driving the mass suicides? Anyone who is outside “sees something,” although what they see is left marvelously undefined.
She captures complete chaos on what appears to be a relatively limited budget, realizing the power of stark imagery-a woman bashing her head into a glass window or another calmly getting into the driver’s seat of a burning car-over the CGI overload we so often see in post-apocalyptic movies. These early scenes of absolute chaos are well-handled by Bier and honestly terrifying.
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And then “whatever” is happening over there comes home as people start to hurl themselves out of windows and into oncoming traffic. She expresses as much to her sister Jessica (Paulson) on the way to a meeting with her obstetrician, as the two discuss reports of mass suicides on the other side of the world. It opens in the nightmarish present, but actually spends more time in flashbacks with Malorie (Bullock), an expectant mother unsure about whether or not she’ll form a connection with her baby. In particular, Sandra Bullock does typically solid work, buoyed by a great supporting cast that includes the should-be-a-star Trevante Rhodes, Jacki Weaver, Danielle Macdonald, Sarah Paulson, and John Malkovich.īased on Josh Malerman’s novel, “Bird Box” intercuts between two time periods-about five years after the end of the world and in the first days when everything collapsed. I'm a sucker for King-inspired things, and this one hits that chord well enough to be worth a look over your Christmas break. Lazy critics and viewers will compare it to “ A Quiet Place” (I've already seen it called "A Blind Place"), but this is a piece that actually draws more from “ Stephen King’s The Mist,” another tale of the paranoia that invades a group of strangers when they’re dealing with both the unknown and the worry that they may never again see the outside world or fully understand what's hiding in it. Most of its strength emerges from a well-directed ensemble, one able to convey the high concept of a nightmarish situation without losing their relatable humanity. Undercooked metaphors about motherhood and a mishandled climax aside, there’s enough to like in Susanne Bier’s “Bird Box,” premiering on Netflix after a limited theatrical release today. How’s this year’s cinematic sci-fi stocking stuffer, "Bird Box"? It’s imperfect, but you probably won’t be returning it. So, apparently, futuristic action movies are now going to be what the company gives us for Christmas every year. Last year, Netflix dropped the high-budget “ Bright” just before the holidays and it turned out to be a pretty massive sci-fi hit for the company, even if critics hated it.
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