Extremely well done, but not a 10

Rating: 8/10 (16 April 2018)

You're definitely going to feel the burn.
You definitely will not make a sound in the theater.
You will appreciate our freedom to be loud AF.
The movie does a great job with all, and the acting/directing by John K was top-of-the-line. However, as with any other-worldly movies, you start to wonder the rules of the world, and you see some details that the director caught, but catch the details that seemed obvious and got left out. For example:
The creatures can hear small sounds from far away, so the family has to whisper and walk on beach sand everywhere.... but
Near a waterfall they can speak... and
The creatures can't hear them because something nearby is louder...
With that logic... why can they hear a whisper from hundreds of yards away when there are thousands of bits of noise between them and the noisemaker, yet they can't hear a heartbeat from a terrified human?
Inevitably in these kinds of movies we always get the "we never tried that" mechanic to kill the creatures, which sure enough they do. I know it's hard to wrap up these kinds of movies, but why does it have to? I would have loved if Emily Blunt and the kids united together against all odds to continue living even though John K dies... that kind of ending would have made me give a 9.5.
TL;DR - great acting, great concept, funky rules, predicatable ending