Not emotionally engaging

Rating: 2/10 (21 April 2018)

Pros:
- Good acting by every character involved. Especially Emily Blunt with brilliant acting and expressions for certain sequences.
- Good cinematography, beautiful colour schemes, very pleasant on the eyes
- The film manages to create an eerie silent and tense atmosphere inside the theaters
- Good background score to go along with the tense atmosphere

Cons:
- Poor Characters: From protagonists to antagonists, all characters lack depth. The protagonist is a template, cliched family with no individual character traits and extremely predictable behavioural patterns. The antagonist is basically cropped from the monster of 'Stranger Things' and morphed around a little bit to have an ear for its face. And all of these things take away the emotional engagement that we're supposed to feel for these characters.
- The story: Though it's supposed to be a mystery and the movie is marketed and 'sometimes less is better', I felt extremely disconnected with the movie because it lacked any content. Why are they here? Why are they killing living things and not eating them? If they just want to kill the noise, they surely can't exist on Earth because there will ALWAYS be some sounds around.
Because of this lack of story and the tense atmosphere which is successfully created in the theater, most of the scary moments in the movie just feel like jump-scares and I only felt surprised but never scared.
- Forceful story-lines: Why would anyone decide to get pregnant (and you already have two children) when you can't even make enough noise to move around without sand beneath your feet? Just forcibly made the movie tense without any thought to the background.
I understand you're the cliched teen rebel, but I'm sure this is an extreme circumstance where you can't possibly afford to have those first world issues and 'move out'.
Even the death of the child in the beginning seemed like it was manufactured to kick the movie off with some kind of awful, scary and sad undertone. It felt forced and weird to me.
- Lack of realism: This is fiction and I get it but I still like to have some kind of realism in the movie. For example, I can't believe that these monsters wiped out the (majority of) human kind for a teen girl to find out the method to kill them.