Can millions of Netfllix viewers be wrong?: Bird Box

Enticed by news reports that Bird Box is by far the most successful of Netflix original releases, we watched it last night and I can report that it's not the worst movie I've ever seen but there's nothing so special or remarkable about it, either. This post-apocalyptic movie follow closely the conventions of vampire films, most obviously Night of the Living Dead. In this case: An outbreak of an unexplained phenomenon sweeps across the world and turns hordes of people and suicidal mobs. Anyone who even looks eye-to-eye at one of the suicides will immediately kill himself/herself, often in the most gruesome manner. Following a few scenes of panic and mayhem, we watch our protagonist - the always good Sandra Bullock - as she finds shelter in a spacious Marin County house, where soon she and about 10 others find shelter from the onslaught: The cover all windows so as to avoid any eye contact w/ the suicidal hordes. But others keep coming to the door, begging for admittance and for solace - though each poses a risk. It's impossible to know who's one of the suicidal vampires and who's "safe." From this premise various adventures follow as Bullock et al have to forage for food, etc. , with every excursion requiring all to proceed completely blindfolded (leading, apparently, to many imitators who've seen this film or heard about it trying various stunts while blindfolded - stupid.) Of course, the #s in the household gradually dwindle. The movie opens w/ Bullock's blindfolding two children and taking them on a rowboat on a rapid river, apparently headed for safety; scenes of this river journey are cut into the narrative, and of course by the end we understand what she's doing and whom she's protecting. I must say that for a high-wattage vampire/end-of-world movie there's incredibly little tension and not jump-out-of-your seat moment of surprise - possibly because all of the secondary characters are so thinly drawn, possibly because the premise is so weird that we can't in any way identify with the plight of the survivors. Compare this w/ movies like Children of Men and it's obvious that Bird Box is pretty much a stunt, not a well thought through drama. Can millions of Netflix viewers be wrong? They usually are.