The antiseptic Bird Box Barcelona is a lackluster yet well-acted spin-off to a movie nobody even wanted a sequel to. agracru's review:
movie should have two things: Birds, and boxes to put ’em in. Susanne Bier’s 2018 original, a huge hit by Netflix’s nebulous, self-reporting standards, had both;, Álex and David Pastor’s sequel, has little of the first and none of the second, which sort of spoils the point. Other key elements carry over from Bier’s film, of course. In order to work,’s ineffable big bads, whose visage induces suicidal madness in any poor sap who lays eyes on them.
But unlike Bier, the Pastors don’t have a bankable star supported by an ensemble of recognizable names. There is no Sandra Bullock; there is no John Malkovich, Sarah Paulson, Lil Rel Howery or Trevante Rhodes. Transplanting’s basic conceit from the U.S. means cobbling together a cast who don’t spark with stateside audiences, which is fine; the absence of familiarity actually creates auxiliary tension. At least we had the comfort of Sandy in the first movie.
Sebastián is a good dad with an effective gauge for identifying good people. He might not be a good person himself.sets up a cast of characters with varied ethics and interests, because putting a handful of strangers in a single location during the end times naturally incites conflict. It doesn’t for a moment suggest that any one of those characters might betray the others to their peril. The film waits to spring that trap until much later, with the addition of several newcomers.
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