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The Stranger in Our Bed (2022)
From the worst of 2022, they will hardly overcome it
When they brought together the flawed clones of Cameron Diaz and Edward Norton to make this "movie," which is supposedly intended to be a thriller with intrigue and suspense, did they think for a moment about having at least the decorum of a little originality? Sometimes a story is poorly acted, but its script can make up for it; other times, the other way around. But with this nonsense neither of the two premises is fulfilled: very poor performances, with characters that generate zero empathy and a story so predictable that you know how it will end after 10 minutes (or even before). An hour and a half of wasted existence.
By the way, the bad guy is the husband, whom we already suspected before the first 10 minutes; That is, there is never any twist or counterturn.
Bird Box (2018)
(Sleppy) Bird box
Attempts to portray novel forms of apocalypse (a genre I confess I'm a fan of) often lead to tedious duds like this one. The initial premise doesn't look bad; coupled with a typical trait of this kind of cinema in which, although it's known that something bad is happening, it's not yet clear what it really is. But after that promising start, the movie stalls and starts to flounder, with clichéd performances that don't evoke the slightest empathy for the clichés they're transporting us to. And one of the classic sins of apocalyptic cinema begins when it tries to rush the pace out of nowhere: the characters, almost out of thin air, start making logical reasonings and deductions to determine what's going on, and suddenly... they miraculously hit the nail on the head (as if maybe when the end of the world comes, at least we'll be aware of the moment...). It's okay to underestimate the average viewer a bit, but one shouldn't overdo it either.
But it would be malicious to say or assume that we are witnessing a kind of plagiarism mix between The Happening (2008) and A Quiet Place (2018)...