Bird Box seemed like it was going to be 'the biggest thing in the history of anything ever' the way people were fussing about it's viewership records back when it debuted in 2018. Now people have meme'd it via the 'Bird Box Challenge', seen it and analysed it to death because it's just like any other typical horror movie. The hype has dialled down since then and I can safely say: yeah, it's okay.

It's not the best movie ever made and it feels like it borrows too many things from 'A Quiet Place' (they both came out the same year) but it's still watchable. It's a Netflix movie, and for me those kinds of movies tend to be a hard HIT or MISS! This ones stuck between the two: it's got great actors and nicely done cinematography capturing the unease of a post-apolcayptic dystopia, but its over-familiarity to other horror films undermines some of the film's strongpoints. I still reckon Netflix has a long way to go with film production standards, but their TV shows tend to be consistent hits across the board.

Want to see the movie that inspired the 'Bird Box Challenge' craze? Well here are my two-cents on the matter.