Bird Box: Barcelona

I was really looking forward to this, and whilst it's an okay thriller, it's got alot to live up to and fails to hit the mark.

The storyline is clever, acting is good, however it feels after watching it that the actual premise of the story is quite weak, and was infact carried by the actors of the first one, in particular Miss Sandra Bullock.

I will admit that it was good to see another scenario outcome of the outbreak, and the city of Barcelona was a good decision, the last 5 minutes of the film kinda made me want another sequal, but all in all an extremely mediocre film that's ridden on the coat tails of its predecessor.

Never saw the first one before seeing this so I have nothing to compare it to. Unless you count about 100 other similar movies and TV shows. This is a mixture of "see", "A Quiet Place" and a few others. Not very original, which is the first issue with the movie.

The other issues are some of the characters which are not sold so well, acting need some work. The CGi/FX is not good, and I think the music score could have been a lot better to sell several scenes. I also think this is not creepy enough i.e. The directing is not on point.

With those negatives out of the way this is still a decent watch. The Spanish is fairly easy to understand and they speak English in many scenes so language is not an issue. Not that this movie really need you to understand everything language-wise but just so you know. The storyline is interesting enough, and the pacing is great. I think this can get a cult following and I would not be surprised if they do a few more of these, set in other locations.

I give this a generous 6/10, and I think the movie is worth your time, But don't expect anything great.

Okay, not a groundbreaking watch, but certainly not deserving of close to 5.

If you like the birdbox idea and enjoyed the first then you'll enjoy this. Don't be put off by the score because it's way overly harsh! The comments regarding the CGI again I think aren't fair, I can't say having watched it I noticed anything off about them.

The plot is decent, acting good, I think the ending does let it down a little in reality.

Overall it was better than I expected it to be given the other harsh reviews. The scales certainly less than the original but definitely give it a go. Hope more from this series to follow.

Not sure what I watched or why.

1. There is no one to root for. It is hard to have a movie where there is no one to care about or root for. It removes all the stakes. There is no true protagnoist and you spend the movie watching random characters appear on screen then die.

2. The 'twist' does not help the movie but starts it down the frustrating path.

3. Stupidity. All you need to to to survive is close your eyes, that simple. You could VERY EASILY open your eyes for a split second to see where you are going and close them again. Just because you open your eyes does not mean you have to keep them open, looking around, and do not react when the 'creature' is near. These are experienced survivors yet they are making first day mistakes for no reason at all outside of this being a bad movie.

4. The acting is surprisingly good.

5. The storyline/plot is stupid, not really explained ,with story being borderline criminal.

The first movie was insultingly stupid filler, made watchable by Sandy Bullock. But Georgina Campbell is in this one and I thought she might bring something fresh to the screen. I was wrong. It's a basic retread, with all the same logical brain-hurts of the first movie, only brain-hurtier.

Mario Casas, a good actor, plays a boring man who is boring. He is escorting a kid through the post-apocalyptic streetssjc#'gch... sorry, I got bored of typing. You know the plot. It's Plot Number 1 from the Big Book of Plots - a bunch of generic humans stumble through derivative scenes until one of them gets yeeted in a flourish of Adobe After Effects plugins.

Do not expect suspense or horror. The director does not know what these things are. The sci-fi elements are completely ignored, so if you've seen the first one, there's nothing new here.

The score is shockingly bad, ever-present and thematically stagnant throughout the entire runtime. The dual-language Spanish setting could have worked well, but they do absolutely nothing with it.

The whole thing reeks of tax breaks. Somewhere, in a Netflix boardroom, people with expensive habits are very pleased with themselves.