Bird Box

Une autre tentative de drame social d'horreur, assise dans l'ombre des Brume de Darabont. Ce constant échange entre deux plans temporels devient monotone après une heure de narration. D'une certaine manière, sa "signification relationnelle" et ses clichés auxquels il incline deviennent très peu probables pour surprendre le public ou apporter quelque chose de nouveau au sujet, qui rappelle déjà certains récents films du genre. La prémisse attrayante pour le public avec un excellent démarrage manque donc du potentiel d'un événement du genre décent, et le film ne laisse derrière lui qu'un drame grand public sûr, avec quelques scènes effrayantes, des enfants en danger et la charmante Sandra. Ce n'est pas que je n'ai pas réussi à regarder cela avec intérêt. Je considère simplement que c'est une grande chance gâchée. JEREMIE (20/01/2019)

Tout le monde a beau affirmer qu’il s’agit d’un clone de Sans un bruit, il est pourtant difficile de dénier à Bird Boxune certaine qualité ainsi que le fait qu’il emprunte une voie propre et qu’il soit très réussi dans ses aspects techniques et son jeu d'acteurs (notamment avec John Malkovitch et son personnage, pour lequel j’aurais souhaité qu’il soit consacré substantiellement plus d’espace et de temps). Par contre, la narration rétrospective m’a semblé de trop : on sait dès le début ce qui va arriver à la plupart des personnages, ce qui fait qu’on n’a plus l’effet de surprise au moment où l’un d’entre eux se retrouve dans la panade. Il en résulte un inutile appauvrissement en suspense par lequel le spectateur manque d’établir un lien émotionnel aux personnages, ce qui est très dommage pour un film de ce genre. Quant à la conclusion, il faut être un parfait bien-pensant pour y adhérer. (11/01/2019)

Netflix, a good director, decent idea and actors. That’s becoming a synonym for 2018. I hope that sticks with the years to come as Birdbox is quite a good apocalyptic drama I could imagine as a series. What makes me happy is that Sandra Bullock again proved herself to be a great actress. Not many people appreciate her, still I think she deserves some respect. Similarly to the plot of the movie which kept me on the edge of my seat from start to end. However I know how hard it is to walk blindfolded through the forest – had the honor on a team-building exercise I went to – and the characters in this movie made it seem all too easy. It’s true that the plot is a bit naive yet under Susanne Bier’s baton it works perfectly and the movie deserves attention. (31/12/2018)

For me, on the same level of A Quiet Place (which I actually liked a little bit less than the average rating would suggest), though it also has some passages that will make a sane viewer facepalm. The behaviour of the characters doesn’t correspond to what would be sensible a given situation (can anyone explain me why nobody paid attention to the guy who in the flashback was experimenting with cameras around the house?). Taken as a whole, however, it’s professionally put together, with solid performances and direction. But expecting a masterpiece would be a mistake. (16/12/2018)

One of the best directorial works by Susanne Bier, who has endured the dangers of a film in which a piece of hypersensitive kitsch is definitely dormant. But, folks, Sandra is great and Trevante Rhodes shows that his special fragility is as astounding as his musculature. Screenwriter Erik Heisserer is an aspirant and intends to specialize in female alien encounters ... which is why the structure of the two alternating levels of storytelling works very well. Bird Box has a nice rhythm and does not drag, and moreover, it avoids the absurd escalation that damaged the similarly tuned A Quiet Place. It's a bit unfortunate that the point itself feels a little lost, and the main character, despite trying to question her relationship to unwanted motherhood, never quite goes deep enough. But chattering aside, this is very solid genre work in all respects, also because the creators eventually gathered enough courage not to show the evil at all. I wish their Hollywood colleagues would take an example from them. One of the best Netflix originals and a dignified reparation for ultimate evil from Shyamalan's The Happening. (18/01/2019)