With a small band of fellow “seers,” who have witnessed the phenomenon but are resistant to its curse, the priest roams the streets daubing the foreheads of survivors with a third eye and forcing them to accept their fate.Ī significant new development in the spinoff is a flash of light emanating from bodies immediately after their death, suggesting a spiritual release that adds credence to Father Esteban’s belief that “Our God and his angels have come down to walk the earth.” One dying man speaks as if in a rapture: “Their ships have traveled millions of light years to get here.”īut the more rational characters are no closer to identifying what exactly is causing the mass suicides. A wild-eyed priest, Father Esteban (Leonardo Sbaraglia), welcomes the lethal entity as a Divine miracle, delivering lost souls from the hell of life on earth. Shifting the setting to a Catholic country allows for a mildly intriguing religious twist. Their script does both too much and not enough to justify a deeper dive into a story that already suffered from contrivances and wobbly logic the first time around.
Cast: Mario Casas, Georgina Campbell, Diego Calva, Naila Schuberth, Alejandra Howard, Patrick Criado, Celia Freijeiro, Lola Dueñas, Gonzalo de Castro, Michelle Jenner, Leonardo Sbaragliaĭirector-screenwriters: Alex Pastor, David Pastor, based on the novel Bird Box, by Josh Malermanĭeparting from Josh Malerman’s 2014 source novel and from the central character of Bullock’s Malorie, the Pastors want to have it both ways by explaining how the phenomenon works - anyone who sees the creatures is prompted to take their own life in the swiftest way possible - while retaining the ambiguity.
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