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As someone who particularly likes survival movies, I'd say That Bird Box offers all the elements required to be a complete survival and suspense film that catches your breath from the first moments, despite the directoring that relies on flashback footage that may steal a little thrill because you already know that it survived, for example, the first attack of these mysterious creatures.
However, the film is entirely based on its mystery to keep the thrill element over the course of two full hours, reminiscent of films such as But the thrill was so real that I felt for a moment the fear that my eyes would also fall on them in some specific scenes that I wouldn't mention to avoid burning.
The film follows a novel of the same name by American author Josh Malerman, which was released in 2014, and directed by Susan Baer, best known for directing the series The Night Managertells the story ofMallory (played by Sandra Bullock) who has to embark on a difficult journey on the river blindfolded with her two young children to reach a safe area of whatever that threatens humanity, which if your eyes fall on him will make you commit suicide without hesitation.
The film then moves between the current time and flashing footage five years ago, the moment of the beginning of this apocalypse, when McIlroy was a pregnant woman with great concern that she would not be able to relate emotionally with her child,which did not help her the disaster of the end of the world to develop her maternal passion especially When she has to take care of another child, not her daughter, she has not named them even after they are 5 years old, when she still calls them: a boy and a girl, and even she has to treat them even more harshly because of the disaster and fear that they will fall prey to dreams that cannot be achieved for a better life.
Their lack of visual state contributes to a stressful survival scenario. As the film progresses you discover that there is more than one enemy(beware of burning next)as the curse of these creatures does not infect everyone, every person in sanity will not kill himself but will become another tool in her hand to force the surviving to open his eyes to their ability to see this "beautiful" thing according to them. They are even more intelligent and creative to do the job, giving another survival element to the survival of our heroes.
The idea of the film may not be new or innovative, but we have seen this apocalyotosis scenario in many horror and modern survival films such as A Quite Place and Cloverfield series, as I felt fora moment that they could have exploited the current technology in many ways to deal with these creatures better, but the wonderful and tense director and star cast that Netflix was able to add to this scenario succeeds in carrying From start to finish with their brilliant performances, from Sandra Bullock and John Malkovich to Trevante Rhodes (from Moonlight), starring Pollock, actor P.D. Wong (albeit for a relatively short role) and Sarah Paulson (also for a shorter role).
So if you expect to sit down to watch Bird Box and seeing something innovative you've never seen before will come out disappointed, and if you're going to watch it expecting to see a horror movie you'll be disappointed too, but if you're going to watch it without any preconceived expectations, you're going to be thrilled to see a movie full of excitement and adrenaline with a great cast and a brilliant performance, you'll definitely be satisfied.
Bottom line: Netflix's Bird Box may not offer anything new, and we can't consider it a horror movie (as I thought before I watched it for some reason) as much as it's a survival and suspense film, but if we put this aside, it gives us a brilliant performance from a cast of stars, most notably Sandra Bullock, John Malkovich and Treviante Rhodes, with some stars in relatively short roles, plus it succeeds in offering all the elements of survival and adrenaline-filled suspense that are required to leave you screwed up for the entire two hours that spans They have the movie.