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🎞️ When is Bird Box Barcelona out on Netflix: 14 July, 2023
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⭐️ Our score: 3/5
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🎭 Who’s in it? Mario Casas, Georgina Cambell, Diego Calva, Alejandra Howard
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👍 What we liked: Mario Casas’ efficiency, and the method the movie analyzes the ethical corruption of humanity in the face of an all-powerful entity.
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👎 What we didn’t: With a variety of post-apocalyptic programs and movies launched considering that Bird Box, its spin-off has a hard time to stand apart from the crowd.
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📖 What’s it about? Set around the very same time as the initial, Bird Box Barcelona informs a brand-new story of survivors in the Spanish city as they attempt to browse the armageddon.
In 2018, Netflix captured lightning in a bottle when it launched Bird Box — a dystopian scary movie that starred Sandra Bullock as a female attempting to save 2 kids from an unnoticeable opponent who, when seen, timely people to eliminate themselves.
Bird Box Barcelona happens around the very same duration as the initial however this time in the Spanish city it is called after, and it concentrates on Sebastián (Mario Casas) and his child Anna (Alejandra Howard) as they attempt to make their method to safety whilst the hidden entities terrorise the general public.
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Like its predecessor, the movie is informed over numerous timelines with the story following Sebastián and Anna in today day, and 5 months previously when the world very first collapsed at the arrival of the entities.
Through their story we learn of the fall of humanity and the dreadful lengths that individuals will go to when confronted with completion times. Leonardo Sbaraglia’s Padre Esteban is the most frightening of all as he sees the entities as messengers of God and himself as the individual to bring humankind to the light (as it were).
Putting more focus on the failings of humankind likewise produces engaging watching, especially as it suggests that nobody is credible and therefore forces audiences to question everybody that comes onto the screen.
The ethical corruption of the seers, those who have actually locked eyes with the entities and lived to inform the tale, was very first checked out in Bird Box, however Bird Box Barcelona takes it up a notch in reliable methods. By doing so it makes the movie more than simply a survival story, and contributes to the strength of its general story.
Casas makes Sebastián a strong lead character, while very little can be revealed about his character, the star does an impressive job at offering a nuanced efficiency.
Sebastián is driven by sorrow and his actions in the movie will generate both rage and compassion from the audience. The choice to put an ethically grey character at the heart of the movie is an interesting one as it definitely assists bring something various to the franchise.
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But, due to the fact that of the nature of the movie, very few of Casas’ co-stars are provided as much time or advancement, which interferes with the story’s efficiency when the audience aren’t provided much of an opportunity to purchase the characters they are presented to.
As a follow-up, Bird Box Barcelona does a good job at contributing to the tradition of the franchise by offering audiences enough brand-new info so as not to seem like a pale replica of its predecessor, however the movie does not do as much as it maybe might have.
It can likewise feel recurring sometimes, there’s just many times we can see the very same fate befall a character prior to it ends up being tiring.
Bird Box Barcelona: What other critics believed
Given the length of time it’s been considering that the initial came out, and the number of other post-apocalyptic tasks there have actually been considering that, it’s tough for Bird Box Barcelona to stand apart from the pack.
Even with strong efficiencies, it seems like Bird Box Barcelona is something that has actually been seen numerous times in the past, which for that reason suggests it is not as unexpected or frightening as it might be.
Bird Box Barcelona premieres on Netflix on Friday, 14 July.
Watch the trailer for Bird Box Barcelona
