The Box

What??????

That is what you will be thinking at every moment during this movie, including when you’re walking out of the theatre. Sometimes it will be from fascination or being spooked, sometimes it will be from cheesiness or just plain badness.

Whatever you think this movie is about, that’s not what it is.

I really can’t say much without giving anything away, but just a word on accents: Cameron Diaz sounds just plain fake, and her son, played by Sam Oz Stone, wasn’t a bad actor, but his Southern accent just made me long for scene-stealing, street savy, precocious Brad Renfro from The Client.

I will give The Box these three things: 1) It is stylistic 2) It is hard to predict what’s going to happen next and 3) you will laugh during this movie (but not because they wanted you to). It wasn’t necessarily a bad movie, just an odd one. I’m not going to say anything else because I don’t want to give anything away.

I recommend that most of you give this one a skip. Go see it for yourself if you can handle any kind of movie. If you only like crowd-pleasers, don’t bother.

For those of you looking for more movies like this, you’re on your own. I’ve never seen one.