Review of The Box (2009) by David H — 20 Jul 2011

I really dig this concept. It yearns to be mysterious, foreboding. It deserves to be so! "The Box" just never quite accomplishes what it set out to do. Plus I'm not a huge Cameron Diaz fan.

Frank Langella, however...he always reminds me of Christopher Lee-light. I do enjoy. God, this film had potential. I really did not understand some of it...and I tried. The whole choosing the right gate stepping through water ending up back where you were something-or-other.

......what? I think this movie tried just too much...it had too many small side things going on to really have the time to explain it. Now I'm not saying that everything within a film's world needs explaining - some of the best movies get away with hardly any explanation at all.

But this just had too many things going on that were so unrelated and so blaringly obvious that I couldn't follow. I did like the sort of twist where the box is kind of a self-perpetuating thing, and how it affected so many different people.

That was intriguing, but again, the film goes nowhere with it. There were threats made to push the characters into action that I felt were, really, not very threatening. There could have been more. Better luck next time, I'm afraid.