I rate on here a lot but rarely review on this site

Rating: 6/10 (22 December 2018)

I love horror of all kinds, IF there were not so many holes in this I would have given it a 7 or 8 for the acting alone from the entire cast.

SPOILERS

So, you lose me at the start-you got a 4 or 5 year old who is not being watched by an adult in this "quiet" environment. Makes no sense, as because he's only 4 or 5 an adult should be watching him at all times
then you got a child who should know better giving him the toy YET you don't grab his hand to walk with you, you just leave him behind you to drop it or anything else that could make noise (I'll leave out another spoiler that was stupid on that part too)
then the entire family lets the BABY of the family WALK in the BACK of the line, never looking back, no one holding their hand NOTHING. I can't with the stupidity when the rest of it is so "careful" (also why not take all the meds, you could wrap them in clothes and take a few bottles at a time-unless there were other folks you were trying to leave meds for but...) whatever with 3 kids, I'd take all the meds
then after that you decide to get pregnant....home on, plenty of ways not too even when folks lived way back when, modern folks with cars should know better, matter of fact no sex no chance of bringing a screaming baby into a "quiet place" this was just idiotic done to add "drama"
oh then add in a rebellious teen girl who is suppose to stay at home with said preggo mom while dad is out teaching JR how to be a man, who just ups and leaves said mom, said mom doesn't notice either that said daughter is gone. then trips over a HUGE (like how could no one have noticed that before now nail) coming up from the basement...makes noise YET doesn't get rid of the nail just leaves it.

then wife goes into labor "so predictable" while NO one is there, and on way to basement steps FULLY on said nail and screams...now the monsters come (I will say I appreciate that they SHOWED the monsters, hate movies where they are only in the shadows)

She evades them somehow and turns on a colored lighting system that tells the rest of the family either A there is an attack or B she went into labor it wasn't clear which,

now the prggo part takes place about 14 months after the first kids isn't being watched. and I OR into the start of the event. We never see flashback of what happened where the monsters came from or what happened to apparently 98% of the population we don't even know what era this is really in(for sure), can't be to fair back as they have video monitors, radio's and it looks fairly modern if country life-ish.

However even if the event happened in less than two years how is there sill wild life to scurry over your roof? When the creature attack any sound, animals make sounds when moving and their vocals sounds(the creatures attack day and night...so sound at any time) yet we see the animal get killed, why haven't the creatures starved if 98% of the people are gone and the other 2% have learned to live "quiet"

I also bring up the time period because of the fact that apparently the creatures are all over the world as we learn via newspapers but if it in the here and now or really anytime in the last 5o/60 years we have more than enough fire power to kill them as all it takes is one shot to the head with a shot gun. Also if it's in the hear and now, the govt (a govt) would have easily and quickly discovered the "weakness" that it took the deaf girl the very end of the movie to discover

oh yeah did I forget to mention the daughter is deaf, which is why THIS family all know sign language and were probably way more easily able to "get by" from the start with being quiet yet still living as they could all communicate

this same daughter though is allowed to run off alone where since she can't hear she can't tell if she is ever making a sound (this is apparent in a scene in the movie where she has 0 clue the monster (who is HUGE and making noise) is only 2 feet behind her. So she could have easily made noise and never known she was doing it...but she just runs around all on her own

are you getting my point now, WAY to many holes, yes most horror has them but if you are going to frame this as a "serious" monster movie make it believable a little more.

wait not done, this is how much this movie irritated me so at the end the family is separated, father finds kids (wait I forgot mother SLEPT through their one secure hiding place for this newborn being FLOODED by 4/5 feet of water-and of course only wakes up when the monster comes down there. Also she gave birth with I guess 1 yell in the matter of 3 minutes the fireworks went off...yeah okay, and was only in labor for lets say twenty mins, most of which she was being chased by the monster-I mean no you don't have to scream the entire time you giving birth but this part was just to damn stupid) back to my point he found the other kids, if they just would have literally sat down in the corn field until morning....or even like 10 mins until the monster got bored and went off, he and the kids would have been able to make it back to the house.

instead he has to yell and die and save them....
last note, seems like they had trails of sand they put around this big farm house and a trail ALL the way into town (remember we in a small outback country town so TOWN is probably if you lucky 3 to 5 miles from your house) where did all this sand come from?? How did you get it back to the farm to spread it across at least 2 acres of land and into town over a foot bridge etc.....MAKES NO SENSE Honestly only giving this a 6 due to the acting being so good