Kelly, king of dumbed-down nihilism, takes a short Twilight Zone TV episode, "Button, Button," and extends it unendurably...

A disappointing film by the makers of the brilliant Donnie Darko.

"Though his narrative's morality-play suspense and Bernard Herrmann-esque score recall Hitchcock, Kelly seems to have selected the '70s so that he can fully channel early-years Steven Spielberg." - Nick Schager

The Box isn't a great film, but it isn't terrible either. It has some good moments, and it is, for the most part, entertaining. It does run a bit too long, having plot points that don't matter, but the concept is intriguing, to say the least. The main villain is really fun to watch, but the rest of the characters are quite odd. It's not a great watch, but it's a film that can be entertaining enough to warrant one.

This was a shocking movie. Richard Kelly is an idiot trying to be David Lynch.

Slow moving movie that makes you think about what if. A couple is faced with a choice that has consequences if the wrong choice is made. Interesting to see Carmeron Diaz without any glamour but she seems to lose her Virginian accent towards the end of the movie. Kept me interested with the Science Fiction aspect.

interesting concept;But a little too "OUT THERE" for my taste

It doesn't always make sense, but like all Richard Kelly's films it is weirdly appealing and visually interesting. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who hasn't liked Donnie Darko AND Southland Tales.

+ might want to skip this one

Wollte zuviel aber schafft zu wenig, wird gegen Ende immer absurder, hat aber durchaus starke Szenen.

Some pretty shitty sci-fi right here. I didn't think this movie had that much potential, but upon seeing it, I had still had some expectation for it and was summarily disappointed.

If Kelly spent half as much time hammering out a coherent story and conclusion as he did making the film so convincingly 70's it would be a masterpiece.

Pomerne velke zklamani. Atmosfera a zakladni napad s krabickou je fajn, ale Cameron Diaz tu hraje otresne a moralni dilemata co tu hrdinove resi jsou nejasne snad jen totalni sociopatovi (aneb vsechny charaktery ve filmu jsou hamizne svine, ktere by mely pochcipat :-) )

Don't waste your time or money going to see The Box because you will leave feeling confused and unsatisfied. When husband and wife receive a mysterious box on their driveway, they find out that if they press the button on it, they will receive money yet someone will die. The acting is not convincing to the viewer and the plot is simply bizarre. There is no purpose to the story and instead of being scary or eventful, the movie is simply confusing.

Good idea, but not a movie idea.

I liked it a lot. It's beautiful visually, exciting in plot and has a few very awkward moments which tense it up quite a lot.

The interesting premise yields an efficient and tense beginning, but then, the explanations are bizarre, and ruins the entire movie.

The concept and the evil character were enticing and great. Cameron diaz shouldn't have been cast though.

This is one of those movies that you either love or hate, and I can't make up my mind which platform to stand on. The philosophical, pseudo-religious, and moral dilemmas are nearly too many to count. There is everything from zombie cults to Jean-Paul Sartre to Shel Silverstein. This movie could have been profound and entertaining if Richard Kelly would have shown some restraint. Instead most people just get bored, and others are left confused, which could be just what he was going for.

I disliked the first part of the movie, because it felt like never starting. Next to that I absolutely hated Cameron Diaz. I still gave a 72 because I find the plot incredibly intruiging. I kept on waiting for the full explanation of this film which is filled with moral dillemas, but it never came.

In the end, the story really is just The Monkey's Paw. That's enough for 25 minutes. The rest, Kelly fills with weird symbolic run-arounds, aliens and government conspiracies and Capricorn One and Childhood's End and David Lynch Light and bad CGI and anything he can think of to make the story look far more complicated than it really is, before explaining it all to us in one huge information dump towards the end. Richard Kelly is pessimistic about humanity passing a test; the feeling's mutual.

Vaya estupidez de película!

Great concept for a movie, but lost it's way about midway through.

Disjointed, clumsy nonsense from a writer-director who needs to put down his pen and try a new job.

Watching the trailer might give you the illusion that this is a cool movie. Once you actually start watching it you find out pretty fast that it's slow, edited poorly, makes little sense, and pretty boring.