Five years ago seems aeons in an era so disrupted by COVID. So it comes as a surprise to realize that the original screen “Bird Box” arrived a full 14 months or so in advance of pandemic restrictio…
, whose prior genre efforts “The Last Days” and “Carriers” both had similar basic premises, it finds a different cross-section of humanity imperiled by unseen but presumed space aliens. When glimpsed, they induce immediate, overwhelming suicidal urges — or, in a chosen few, mind-controlled subservience that drives them to lead unsuspecting others to their doom.
It turns out that “Barcelona” is a bit of a dead tree limb, however. Though slick and more expansive in some ways, with bigger action sequences, it proves an overlong, uninvolving entry, in which any attempted fresh wrinkles to this fantasy universe offer scant viewer reward. Premiering on Netflix worldwide on July 14, it also makes a key miscalculation that drags the whole enterprise downward almost from the start.
But Sebastian has a hidden agenda, and even Anna isn’t quite what she seems. Making their acquaintance turns out to be bad luck for these new friends, after which our protagonists move on to infiltrate another set of survivors. Living in an old bomb shelter, that next mini-tribe includes welcoming Claire , who also has a little girl named Sofia in her charge, and Octavio , who regards Sebastian with considerably more suspicion.
But none of this is all that engaging, despite a capable cast, impressive production scale and heightened if uneven action content. We still never actually see the “entities,” which would be fine if the film didn’t keep promising revelations about this malevolent force that never actually come into focus. Even some final emphasis on the “science” in science-fiction only seems introduced to tease another sequel, leaving the primary global menace a near-complete mystery.
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