One of Blumhouse's Amazon Originals for the Halloween season of 2020, Black Box is a magpie of sci-fi/horror staples and fails to really achieve its own identity. It is well-staged and is driven by a great central performance by Mamoudou Athie as a single father who starts to question his own identity - and, it turns out, with good reason - but the key narrative reveal could do with sharper writing to make sense initially, although the film does recover for a mildly interesting final act. This is an underpowered low-budget sci-fi thriller with some strengths that just make it passable.
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