Night Shyamalan’s numbing The Happening, Dawn of the Dead, and others. Meanwhile, the cliches multiply as Bird Box borrows and steals from the aforementioned deadly A Quiet Place, M. Another woman rushes to their aid but sees the monster and meets a ghastly end, leaving her husband (John Malkovich, who still sounds like a dial tone with a post-nasal drip, even when he’s in a rage) to pursue the hapless Bullock seeking revenge for his wife’s untimely death. There is a clumsy flashback to five years earlier of a terrified, unmarried, pregnant Sandra Bullock on her way to a doctor’s appointment with her sister (a shamefully wasted Sarah Paulson) when the unexpected apocalypse (aren’t they always?) sends people in the streets into a panic that drives them to suicide. At any rate, the movie lacks any kind of linear narrative sequencing, so you never know where you are or what year it is. The director is the Danish poseur Susanne Bier, who does not work well with plot, character development, pacing or continuity, especially in English (maybe the reason nobody in the cast comes off well is that they couldn’t understand the directions). Add to it the very bankable Sandra Bullock. It’s happened to Jane Fonda, Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt…the list is long and lamentable. It proves to them they can act, gives them pride in their profession and reminds them they are still alive.
So they turn to foreign film directors who specialize in pretentious art films nobody will ever see. Starring: Sandra Bullock, Sarah Paulson, John MalkovichĮvery film star with millions of dollars who is tired of formulaic Hollywood crap seems to be searching for art, critical praise and self-respect.
Written by: Eric Heisserer, Josh Malerman So the questions begin: what are they running away from? Where are they going? Why are they carrying a box containing five birds? On leave (temporarily, I hope) from hit movies as well as her senses, she plays a blindfolded woman called Malorie who, in the opening scene, drags two blindfolded children along a treacherous river to find an escape boat. The only real shock in this one is that it stars Sandra Bullock, who should know better.
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