Malorie bonds with Olympia (Danielle Macdonald, of Patti Cake$), who is also pregnant, She learns to trust Tom, an Iraq war veteran played by Moonlight‘s Trevante Rhodes. A blindfolded car trip to the grocery story for supplies supplies the film with its best blast of nerve-frying tension. That’s when the reluctantly pregnant heroine, along with eight other survivors (don’t ask what happened to her sister played by Sarah Paulson), runs for cover into a house owned by a suspicious, loathsome creep named Douglas (played by John Malkovich as if to the manner born). From there, we flash backwards to see how the world got itself in this fix. We meet her character, Malorie, first in extreme closeup, reading the riot act to two five-year-olds (Julian Edwards and Vivien Lyra Blair) about keeping their eyes wide shut. It helps a lot that the resourceful Sandra Bullock - a genuine movie star who actually knows how to act - can command the screen. Working from script by Eric Heisserer ( Arrival), the Danish Oscar winner for In a Better World needs to rely on the group dynamic among survivors to generate suspense. That’s the trap director Susanne Bier finds herself in. Not because we’d all commit suicide if we did more likely it’s because we wouldn’t be that scared. You can see how this strong premise would work for a while … until, well, it doesn’t.īased on the bestseller by Josh Malerman, this adaptation teases us with monsters we never actually witness. Lay your eyes on one of these extraterrestrials, and you immediately want to kill yourself - throwing yourself in front of a car, or bus, or whatever is handy. Remember A Quiet Place, which created a post-apocalyptic world in which aliens would pop out and kill you if you made a single sound? Bird Box is pretty much the same story, except it’s looking at the creatures from another planet that will end your days on earth.
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