Bird Box Review

Interest: 9/10

Acting: 8/10

Storyline: 8/10

Drama: 6.5/10

Fights Guns or otherwise: 8.5/10

Excitement: 8/10

Horror: 8/10

Nudity: 5/10

Gore: 9/10

Logic: 8/10

Bird Box is a 2018 Horror, Drama, Sci-Fi Film starring Sandra Bullock. Its total Run Time is two hours and four minutes. It was requested by Grant Thomas. It is streaming on Netflix if you are wondering. Let’s see if it’s any good shall we?

Interest: The movie and idea is super interested. The idea is perhaps not brand spanking new, but it is new enough to bring a smile on my face and wonder what is happening. It’s dark, gripping, and until now honestly plays on a fear I didn’t know I had. It’s something I think if you’re willing to sit through, totally going to grip your interest!

Acting: The acting is pretty solid. No jarring actions from characters that make you go “Huh, That seemed odd.” or anything of the sort. The cast is solid and work together well. I thoroughly enjoyed Everyone's work in the movie (Including Machine Gun Kelly’s) and thought they all were excellently casted and made it a very enjoyable experience.

Storyline:The short and sweet of the story is this: whatever bad version of religion you believe, has come to earth as an invisible entity, and is causing havoc and pandemonium everywhere. This being said, the story is a survival trope. All the characters fit well in the story and make sense for what’s going on, from a drug user, a cop, someone who is just depressed and hating it, to a spoiled brat, to an ex marine, and a lawyer, and even a Judas. It does this trope very well and it holds its own very well.

Drama: Drama (as much as I may not watch these movies because drama to me usually in my mind involves romance and stupid nit picking bickering) in this film is pretty fantastic. It along with the tension and fear, is something that really moves the story along. The drama also adds tension by seeing if people will not jump from a verbal attack to a physical one. And even trying to be someone your not, because in a world of originally 7 billion people, now there's maybe on a few thousand left, some of which you still can’t stand. There is growing of people and seeing them at highs and lows, just in very quick succession, which really stinks, but if we did it the right way, this movie would be probably six hours long.

Fights, Guns Or Otherwise: The verbal fights and remarks are pretty fantastic as our main character (Who is played by Sandra Bullock) Takes no shit and is blunt and crass (Crass is in lacking sensitivity. Not lacking intelligence or refinement though) and everyone else takes jabs at each other too. Sometimes the jabs are almost to hilarity. Now the actual physical grit of the film is pretty up there as well. I’d say this, if this were to ever be a thing, this is how it’d go down.

Excitement: I’d say this film is exciting, maybe even thrilling. The horror, and having to survive elements in the film are impressive, and honestly thought provoking. It isn’t your typical everything has gone to hell movie. You can’t look outside, your eyesight is incredibly restricted, otherwise very bad things happen. It’s a thrill the whole way around. It’s gritty and honest, while clearly being surreal in the whole idea of it. If you watch it you’ll understand what I mean.

Horror: I mean I should state this, how we feel about things is subjective, but this movie makes my skin crawl at the things happening. The movie is on edge more and more somehow to the point that I at least felt hopeless and I know this isn’t a real thing happening. If you hate the idea of truly being alone, and just the world as we know it suddenly changing how it works, this movie does this so this may or may not be for you.

Nudity: There is some nudity in this film, And it really does aid the film in much anyway besides the fact that it was a comedic break up that was needed in order to scare you a little later. Otherwise besides that one time I don’t believe there is any other nudity and it isn’t that bad either.

Gore: Now the blood and guts don’t fly all the time in this film, but it strategically places where these will be, after long bouts of fear and intensity, it’ll just be a quick spurt there, or a shot or stabbing here, but then it goes, nearly kill crazy, and then reigns it back in, as if that was the climax for gore. That being said it is a moderate, to maybe to much gore, so if that isn’t your thing, stay away,, otherwise Gorehounds and non squeamish will probably enjoy the gore work.

Logic: The logic in this movie, for a survivalist movie, is honestly pretty solid. That being said there is one part in which Malory, the main character needs to make a hard choice, in which someone must look, and she cops out, which ends in disaster like it should but the movie was about making sacrifice, and then all of a sudden she didn’t. But besides this, everything made sense logically, and was an excellent film.

So do I recommend this film? Yes I absolutely do! If you want something that isn’t a remake or a sequel, this piece is imaginative, and honestly pretty creepy and scary. This is seriously a unique idea that gave me the creeps. This movie in my opinion proves you don’t need to show fifty million people dying in gruesome ways to be scary, just a scary idea is really all. The score the movie got was a 78% which is pretty high up there. Go give it a watch especially if you have nothing to do, and like horror movies.