Good premise

Rating: 6/10 (21 July 2018)

I had really high hopes for this movie. I didn't many reviews, but heard all the hype, sonInwas going into it with high expectations. Now I see I've been let down like many others:

the premise is great. I was also wondering how the aliens defeated the army, how they got to Earth (they're more like Aliens than Predators, so rather low on the technological skills), but I could accept no backstory. It wasn't necessary.
the beginning is awesome - rarely do you see an American horror where a main character dies, let alone a child. It really turned my hopes to 11 as it creates a world where the stakes are really high
but then the movie skips a year, the Emily Blunt character is pregnant and we get to see how the family gets by on a daily basis. And so comes the disappointment as the characters seem idiotic
they had a year and didn't accomplish anything: no traps, no soundproofing nothing. And they're expecting a child - since it's their fourth they must know that babies cry...
then it turns out that the monsters weren't really all that scary or powerful. You can kill them with a shotgun and distract them with louder sounds.
no consistency - they could hear a conversation from miles away, but couldn't hear people breathing or their hearts beating... seriously?
also, how were they so successful if they hunt alone?
we can see the monsters swim, so shouldn't they be in the river catching fish, since it's easier to navigate by sound in the water...

So a great premise/idea, ruined by lazy writing as is often the case. I wonder how's the sequel gonna turn out, but I don't have much hope. They'll have to give the monsters a backstory and I'm afraid they're gonna blow it. It's either gonna be that they were brought in by humans or they were hibernating on Earth (and every major extinction in history was because of them). But I think I could buy it if the monsters were just some sort of hunting dogs sent by a more advanced civilization, although that would also be a stretch.