Good original thriller

Rating: 7/10 (6 January 2019)

A Quiet Place is a thriller as unique as it is entertaining.
In it, a small family tries to survive in a post-apocalyptic world in which creatures that are guided by sound hunt them down. The plot could not be any simpler and no effort is done in order to deepen it. In fact, no explanation is ever given as to "how did we get here". But such an explanation would be unecessary anyway: the film is a thriller after all, not a sci-fi; you are just supposed to go along with it.
If you do, what you have ahead of you is an original premise, solid performances (particularly by Emily Blunt) and an interesting and fitting way of dealing with sound in a film that ultimately revolves all around that.
That is not to say that the movie doesn't have flaws. The development of the relationships between the characters is not all it could be: the conflicts among them go largely unexplored throughout the film and fall into cliche towards the end. Still, when a thriller keeps you tense for an hour and a half, I'd argue that is has done it's job well.