This has so many holes that it's just plain stupid

Rating: 5/10 (7 May 2018)

I went to see this movie after seeing rave reviews, and comments like "It's 2018's Get Out!", and I really liked Get Out.
So naturally, expectations were probably too high.
But even so, at the end of the movie, I was feeling utterly disappointed, due to the huge amount of big gaping holes on the story.
******MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD************
I'm not even talking about the fact that we never get to know where the monsters came from, I'm actually OK with that. But it's inevitable to think that the writer (Krasinsky) had one idea of fighting blind sound-driven monsters, and just made up something that would appeal to family values around that, not caring the least about every other detail. But now that I mention the monsters... there are newspaper clippings mentioning the fact that they're attracted to sound. So they have hyper sensitive hearing, but the experts at the military never realized (before their own extinction) that high pitched sounds could maybe mess with their hearing ability? Oh well, I guess I'll give you that, otherwise there'd be no movie.
So on to the first scene, which makes little common sense... The daughter hands the toy to the younger kid, after the father said he couldn't have it. Nothing wrong with that, but did she have to give him the batteries too?? I know the daughter's deaf, but is she dumb too? Why the hell would she give him the batteries???
So then the movie jumps to about 1 year later, and by then the family has managed to scrape by, the mother is pregnant and they... wait, what??? She's pregnant??? In a place where you can't make a sound, they had sex up to the point of becoming pregnant? Really??? Ok, so I'm guessing silent sex will be a trend soon. And they raid the grocery stores for supplies, but they couldn't get condoms??? Or pull out?
So they prepare for the baby's arrival, trying to make a sound-proof room to keep it safe from the monsters hearing the baby cry.
During this, the father tries to contact anybody in the world for survivors that could help. But... wait a minute... early in the movie, when they raise a fire at the top of a structure, they see other fires being lit in the surroundings. So there are other survivors close by, but they never contact each other?? And this is done in a basement where the father doesn't let his older daughter enter. "Why not?", I wonder? The sole reason for not letting her inside is to create an emotional moment towards the end of the movie, when she finally steps inside and finds out his attempts to rebuild her hearing aid (which she already knew he was trying, as that's reason for a fight between them, so again I can't really understand the logic behind this). Oh, and he never manages to get the hearing aid working, but the kid always keeps it in her ear, even after becoming angry with her dad. So why keep a non-functional device attached to your head all the time? Oh, because that's important to the end of the movie, right...
And the racoons... good grief, I've seen other reviewers mentioning that and it's really amazingly stupid it turns funny. We're expected to believe that racoons that run around the house's roof somehow managed to stay 1 year without being killed by the monsters.
Oh, and then the baby is born, which obviously prompts a tense situation, and they bring it to the sound proof room, where a while after a flood suddenly erupts, from a broken pipe. Wait, what??? How did that pipe get broken??? I felt like maybe the version shown here in Portugal was badly edited, because we never got to see how that flood started we just saw a broken pipe leaking insane amounts of water. And obviously, a monster shows up inside the room, and God only knows how it got there.
So this has so many holes, and so big, that the movie becomes unwantingly funny. Probably most of the reviewers who give it 10/10 where taken by the whole father-children relationship, and that's quite clearly the whole point of the movie, but the way to get that message skipped over so many details that it becomes a big mess. It's a shame, because all actors do a very good job, but story-wise, IMO this script is a good candidate for the Razzies.