Promising directing debut, but terrible story

Rating: 2/10 (4 April 2019)

I really like John Krasinski, and when I saw the trailer for A Quiet Place I was instantly excited. That said, I didn't actually bother to watch it until it became available on Hulu. Anyway.
The movie instantly surprised me with the kid dying. It could be expected from the stupid toy he ended up taking, but most films don't actually go that far, and certainly not within the first few minutes. But then it cuts to about a year later. Apparently nobody has had a heart-to-heart with the poor daughter about her unfortunate part in her brother's death. She is understandably frustrated, but nobody cares except her other brother. And best of all, the mother is pregnant again.
Why?
This lady can hardly take care of her own children (she lets the deaf girl wander off by herself and doesn't even check to see that her daughter came home once night falls). She is still too wrapped up in the death of her youngest child, too much so to even properly look after the children she already has. Why would they choose to have another kid? The pharmacies are still full of medicine, why couldn't they grab some condoms or plan B? Seems like it would be the smart and RESPONSIBLE thing to do as parents trying to keep the children they already have alive, especially when they have already learned just how difficult and nigh impossible that is with toddlers and preteens. But sure. A crying baby should be fine.
I walked away towards the end of the film. At that point I had checked out pretty completely. The camerawork is pretty good. I have seen much, MUCH worse. And the acting was well done, even though the actress for the mother couldn't sway me after all the stupid things her character did. I really liked the girl who played the daughter. But all in all, it was a bland story that avoided a few of the tropes but ran running and screaming right into the most damning one: predictable stupidity.