Tension that holds you throughout the movie

Rating: 8/10 (14 January 2019)

Kinda funny - one reviewer said A Quiet Place has "too much silence". Wow. I really don't know what to do with that. ***MAJOR SPOILER*** - the silence IS the movie. **** END OF SPOILER ***
I can't go too far into the details of the story because the stark simplicity of the premise means that any description of even a small part of the movie would qualify as a spoiler IMHO. It is horror, it is drama, it is a character study, it is a movie about a family in distress. It has a certain intensity that lasts throughout the movie without becoming monotonous or mind numbing. There are a few comments here about the lack of a sense of what happened before the movie and how that created this story and put these characters in the current position. I get that, but I like the way that you are dropped right into the family's day-to-day without preamble and then build out the details by yourself as best you can with almost nothing to go by. What happened previously doesn't really interest me once you get into the story and live the family's "now" with them. I really enjoyed this movie. The children were great in their roles. I continue to be impressed by and look forward to the next work by John Krasinski.