An Interesting Premise

Rating: 7/10 (7 April 2018)

I saw "A Quiet Place", starring Emily Blunt-The Girl on the Train, Edge of Tomorrow; John Krasinski-The Office_tv, Dreamgirls; Millicent Simmonds-this is her second movie, with Wonderstruck being her first and Noah Jupe-Wonder, Suburbicon.
This is a sci-fi/horror movie, directed by John Krasinski-he is also starring in it, with his real life wife, Emily. It's also the first movie he has acted in with Emily-she plays his wife here, too. It's an interesting premise. It takes place about 20 years in the future, where an alien species has invaded the earth, and boy are they hungry. The gimmick here is that for some reason, the hungry aliens are blind. They hunt their human fast food by sound only. Any kind of noise attracts them. John and Emily live out in the woods, away from the city, where they go occasionally to get food and supplies. They communicate using sign language. Millicent and Noah are their children. FYI: Millicent is actually deaf. John is also an amateur inventor. He is working on a sonic device to use on the aliens, since their hearing is so acute. Then, to complicate matters, Emily goes and gets pregnant. I mean, how are you going to keep a baby quiet? The only problem I had was that I wish they had gone into more details about the aliens. Where were they from? How did they get here? What was their purpose coming here? Besides being hungry. Little things like that. But overall, I enjoyed it.
It's rated PG-13 for terror and bloody images and has a running time of 1 hour & 30 minutes.
I would buy it on DVD.