Thrilling In It's Melancholy

Rating: 8/10 (7 April 2018)

You think during the first reel, this family would self-dstruct and most would consider suicide. The answer to the last reel makes you wonder...well, at least it wasn't "The Mist." The darkest ending in modern cinema.
It starts off as setting up a world where noise sends monsters out from the dark. They are quick and snatches you so fast, they leave behind not even a scream. How did they get here and what do they want? Does it matter? It is a great taut study on how to do so much with so little. So as it stands, the family just wants to survive the monsters who have annihilated the world. So what are we left with. Base survival that has no internet, or angry trolling critical reviews.
Director John Krasinski has crafted something so effortless in its sadness of existence that you wish there was another sequence that shows the rebuild. What essentially begins as the set pieces of "The Walking Dead" turns expertly to innovation of survival.
Though I dont agree with the ending... it still gives us such great moments and pulls us along with so many great "oh no!" segments, it's impossible not to cheer the final shot.
An old fashioned scary film without the unnecessary urban myth.