Nearly sent me to sleep

Rating: 2/10 (26 April 2018)

A Quiet place is a movie completely built on the foundations of total contradiction, where we follow a family trying to keep quiet in order to avoid the attention of sound-sensitive alien creatures from coming to bash them. So to do this they inexplicably live in a very 'quiet place' where the smallest noise can be traced straight back to them.
The daughter who is very, very annoying, is coincidentally deaf and therefore already adjusted to living in such a way. However, her being deaf doesn't add or detract anything from the story, and doesn't offer any interesting scenarios that could have been explored.
But the most notable problem with this movie is that it is INCREDIBLY boring in the first 45 minutes. It is also far too overly familiar, with it treading over the very same grounds as previous better films. It looks and sounds like Signs with an obvious influence from Cloverfield. With it being post apocalyptic, at times it typically feels like the Walking Dead. But mostly, the creatures which they're hiding from sound and behave just like the Raptors in Jurassic park.
On the other-hand it does manage to stir up some good tension and manages to create some suspense. The acting is standard, and the art is good.
But in the end, it was the run-time which I was most grateful for, being a short 1hr 30mins. I was so glad it was finished.