So much potential but failed to capitalize on it.

Rating: 7/10 (19 August 2019)

A Quiet Place is a sci-fi thriller starring husband and wife team John Krasinski and Emily Blunt. John does double duty as the movie's director as well and it's nice to know that even he acknowledges that his wife is the better actor between the two of them when he said he didn't need the responsibility of directing her and would rather much act beside her instead. She's always a delight to watch, churning out memorable performances in 'The Devil Wears Prada' and 'The Edge Of Tomorrow.' She also delivers here, highlights include the viral nail on the stair scene, when she gives birth (I mean come on, I wanted to pass out for her) and how she bad-assly goes for her baby with the monster swimming beneath her.
The screenwriters wanted to be original and they were gonna get away with it, right until the very last scene with the surveillance cameras and then it hit me: I've already seen this as a Black Mirror episode - the one with the robot dogs. Just the same, I do agree this was a good piece of work taken on its own. I mean who am I to disagree with none other than the main man of horror himself Stephen King complimenting it and pointing out that the Silence was the main star of the film. By the way, one of the producers of the film is Michael Bay (Transformers, Armageddon, Pearl Harbor) and I never thought I'd see the day when Michael Bay and Silence could co-exist.
Now one of the questions I have and wasn't answered was how did all of this started. I read somewhere a meteor hit Mexico, but I guess they did not touch much on that (among many other things) and is saving it for the sequel set for May 2020. Which is kind of a problem. The way they built the mystery, I feel as though there's something missing. I read in a review comparing this to another keep-quiet-or-you're-dead movie 'Don't Breathe' and the latter wins hands-down (or covering your mouth) and I agree. Don't Breathe was more engaging in the sense that we were rooting for them to survive (even if they were the lesser evil in the story) but here I don't know what to do for them. I want for them to survive for sure, but aside from being a tightly-knit family, they're complete strangers to me. Hopefully they can work on that in the next installment so I can cheer for them - internally of course, if we want them to survive.