Good, but could be better

Rating: 5/10 (16 January 2019)

Fronted by husband and wife team, Emily Blunt and John Krasinski, "a family is forced to live in silence while hiding from monsters with ultra-sensitive hearing." To add to that, it's set in a post apocalyptic world - sounds great right? I thought so too for the first 30 minutes or so. It set off really well. It built up the story line really well, and was genuinely eerie until they presented the monsters. I thought they had honestly added them in as an afterthought. It's kind of like Alien, as you don't really see the whole thing, but you see bits. I think it certainly would have been better leaving you knowing what was happening rather than presenting that to you.
For me, after that point, the film did go down hill. I lost interest in it and got really frustrated with it.
I think some of this may be down to its short running time (only 90 minutes) and trying to fill such a small amount of time with such a large concept, or maybe what was in fact so good was the lack of any dialogue.
IMDb rating 7.6/10 My rating 5/10