Wow! So little effort!

Rating: 2/10 (22 September 2018)

The movie has a premise that has the beginnings of a great film. An alien race that has taken over earth and hunts humans on the basis of sound alone. Unfortunately, the suspension of disbelief on the basis of the intelligence of the characters, is very disappointing... The characters do not discover the idea of soundproofing until the final third of the movie and 1 and a half year after said invasion, despite the father clearly knowing that it works (as it takes his son near a cataract to demonstrate exactly that fact earlier on). The female lead gets pregnant well into the invasion, despite knowing that sound would endanger her and her progeny. Not only that, but she leaves a nail SHE KNOWS is there on the floor, only for her tp step on it fifteen minutes later. This to me indicates that the writers (which includes actor/director John Krasinski) simply took the initial promising concept and then did NOTHING with it except write a generic copy of Signs around it and added the deaf child to get extra credits from the disabled community. If they put at least half as much effort as they did to learn sign language into the actual script of the film, this movie might indeed have been worthy of attention. As is you are better off watching The Meg which at least does not pretend to be anything more than a dumb B movie.