Family movie with monsters

Rating: 5/10 (2 December 2019)

Beginning writers are taught that any shotgun that appears in the beginning of the first will be used to set off an inciting incident to start the second act. Krasinski uses a noisy child's toy, but he follows rule to start his movie and show us the universe in which this family lives. The problem is that he follows all the rest of the writer's rules, too, and what we get is a story we have all seen before. There's an apocalypse that creates danger for a family, because coming of age teenager becomes an adult and a parent sacrifices everything.
The movie works best if you overlook the enormous plot holes, the contrived danger and the preposterous premise, and concentrate on the relationships between rhe characters. Krasinski is on to something in the way he portrays the way they care about each other, and he might want to think about making that
movie instead of this one.