Very entertaining, just turn off your brain

Rating: 7/10 (25 March 2020)

I'm not a horror-movie fan, and I really enjoyed this - probably because it's more suspense, than horror. However, to enjoy this, you *really* need to turn your brain off, because the parents do two very UNFORGIVABLY-stupid things in the movie. (See below for spoilers on that.) But the good is pretty damn good: It's unique (AFAIK, since I don't normally watch these kind of modern flicks), the sound is amazing, the suspense is top-notch, and all actors, including the kids, and especially Emily Blunt, are terrific. Also, high-praise for John Krasinski for an early directorial effort, especially directing his wife for the toughest scenes of all. Seriously, she should have been nominated for an Oscar (she WON the SAG award for Best Supporting Role).
SPOILERS: I did have a major problem with Evelyn (Emily Blunt) getting pregnant *after* these events began, for three big reasons: 1. Why bring another child into this alien-infested world? 2. ...Especially after they already lost a child to the aliens. 3. A baby CAN NOT be silenced (nor can the mother giving birth). And what's most frustrating about this, is that this issue could have been fixed SO EASILY, by simply having Evelyn be pregnant at the beginning of the film, which starts at 89 days since the alien invasion - so make her four-months pregnant. Then make the follow-up scene 5 months later (instead of a year) and boom, having the baby totally makes sense; couldn't be helped - it also makes perfect sense why the time jump (to get to the birth, which is an AMAZING scene, granted). This is a no-brainer, and even if they needed to do reshoots to fix this, it's literally two locations to do so (grocery store and bridge). That *almost* ruined the movie for me. The other unforgivably-stupid thing the parents do is in the beginning, when they decide to walk in FRONT of their youngest child to make sure he keeps quiet. (and for the record, I'm a parent. ;-)