It's original but not much else.

Rating: 5/10 (20 July 2018)

I watched this the other night and while I did enjoy the original premise, there were too many things that bothered me about the movie and most of them have already been mentioned. The originality is the only reason I gave it a 5 instead of a lower score.
1. Leaving the little kid to walk at the end of the line when they were going home. What normal parent would do that? Most of us would have one parent in front and one in the back.
2. Who planted all that corn? They certainly didn't do it by hand.
3. How come the nail was sticking straight up on the stairs? I know she pulled it with some laundry but nobody would have nailed it like that in the first place. Why didn't she either pull it out or bend it so nobody else would step on it.
4. How come they never wore shoes? Wouldn't it have easier to wear some quiet rubber soled shoes than to get bags & bags of sand to lay down to make a path? Since it appeared to be autumn where they were what happens when it gets cold? Still no shoes?
5. Wouldn't most women be especially careful NOT to get pregnant under the circumstances they were living with?
6. How come it took a kid to figure out the creature's one weakness?
7. Why did the father scream at the alien to get it away from the kids? Couldn't he have thrown something away from himself to attract its attention?
8. Electricity - where was it coming from?
Some people here have mentioned the fact that the mother was able to shoot the thing in the face and kill it and if she could do it why didn't the army? Well I believe it was because when it had its face opened because of the high frequency sound it was vulnerable where it wasn't at other times. That's my take on it.
While the acting was very good and it was different than a lot of movies out there, so much didn't make sense that I found it distracting.