I went and saw it the other day. I really didn't care for it very much. Lots of holes in the plot and overall not very entertaining. Thought I would let everyone know before you made the same mistake as me. Also, Cameron Diaz's accent was pretty bad. EDIT** I put a spoiler down below if you are interested.
Well im glad i didnt go see it, my girl an i went to the movies the other day and were debating between that and the fourth kind. The fourth kind was kind of slow but over all creepy and very interesting. Im not 100% what The box was about. ...?
Here is what it is about: (in my words) Beginning (Not ruining much.) Spoiler Cameron Diaz's character is a teacher and her husband is a nasa engineer. They have one young son probably around 12 years old. One morning they receive a strange box with a button on their front door with a note saying 'Mr Steward will be back at 5 PM'. Well, they disregard it as some maid of honor prank gift and go about their days. Later that day Cameron Diaz's character finds she will be losing her job after the end of the semester, and her husband finds out he is not accepted into the NASA astronaut program. (Something he was really counting on for financial stability.) After Cameron Diaz gets home later that day Mr. Arlington Steward visits her and explains that she has the opportunity to press the button on the box and she will recieve 1 million dollar and somewhere someone she does not know will die. After her husband gets home they discuss it slightly then go to a theater performance that night. When they get back after debating Cameron Diaz decides on a whim to press the button. Shortly later Mr. Arlington Steward comes by with a briefcase containing 1 million dollars and takes the box. He explains that he will now give the box to someone else. And ominously adds: "It will be someone you do not know." The END (Ruining the movie completely.) Spoiler At about the same time she presses the button a 9-1-1 call sounds and the police go to investigate a homicide in which the husband shot his wife in the heart. Weird thing is the woman has no signs of struggle and when the police arrive they find the couples child locked into the upstairs bathroom and the husband has fled. It turns out (through a very slow and confusing plot) that Arlington Steward once was a NASA engineer who was struck by lightning. Many people throughout the movie appear to be under some sort of mind control and each time they are around their nose starts bleeding. It turns out that Arlington Steward is hosting an Alien of some sort, or alien race, or he is being controlled by them in some way. (Again a very difficult plot to follow with lots of holes.) Well after a bunch of confusing plot holes they end up being punished for pressing the button and they are told by Mr. Arlington Steward that Cameron Diaz's character must die (since she pressed the button) and that her husband has to shoot her in the heart. If he doesn't, their son (who is locked up-stairs and made deaf and blind by Alrington or his alien host) will remain that way for the rest of his life. Cameron Diaz will either have to be shot in the heart by her husband or their son will never hear nor see their faces ever again. Agreeing that the could not live with themselves her husband inevitable shoots her in the chest. At the time to bullet is firing out of the gun it cuts to a scene of another couple where the woman is pressing the button. The police come and arrest the husband and that is the end. I did not mention that at one point that Arlington is mentioning to the head of NSA (national security agency) that this is all a test if enough people press the button the alien or whatever he is working for will be required to expedite the races extinction. Ok! Done! Trying to write it all down just further reminds me of all of the plot holes and unexplainable scenes in the movie. Watch at your own risk!
ah, this is the second time I've heard that movie wasn't very good, I don't want to see it now. I took my girl to the movies and we were gonna watch it but instead saw The Men Who Stare at Goats, it was alright not what I had wanted though.
I'm a big Cameron Diaz fan; but this movie was just horrible; nowadays that goes for a lot of the movies out...