Good at first, really annoying towards the end

Rating: 3/10 (4 September 2018)

Spoilers! The downfall of this movie is that it tries to be realistic. But the idea that these things could be the bane of humanity is not convincing. Their strength is incredible hearing. Once this is known (and it was already at times when there where still newspaper distribution) you don't get silent, no, you make a lot of distracting noise: hundreds, thousands of squeaking, clapping, grinding wind- and watermills, radios in treetops, motors running, toys. In the noise you prepare traps. You place some very heavy, pointy, sharp or otherwise nasty object and steel wires somewhere. Then you silence everything.
You use their strength of moving very fast against them. In the silence you play a recording of human voices for 5 seconds, and then lift the recorder into the treetops. The thing will come rushing, at 50 or 100 or 200 miles per hour and smash itself to pieces ever so nicely.
If the things needs 15 sec to come than their average distance is no more than half a mile. Close enough to track and sneak up at them in the noise when they have their ears closed. Then in the silence, when they open their ears, you shoot them in the soft tissue. Of course you bring your ghetto-blaster in case they don't die.
I had preferred the movie, if the plot had started out, that people had just found out how the things could detect them, then tentative tried to fight them using those traps, maybe often failing because the things where clever and trapped people just as often, and then, when everything seemed lost, humans discovered their fatal weakness. It would had been more convincing and it would have spared me weeks of irritation.
Of course, the basic idea of a "silent place" had been somehow lost, but I had preferred a good movie over a good title.