had potential and ... it's gone

Rating: 4/10 (13 June 2018)

I will make this as quick as possible. The acting is great. The story could have been great. It is a somehow slow burner. Whoever wrote the part of the daughter knows a lot about daughters and teenagers, but absolutely nothing about postapocalyptic scenarios and survival; daf is all I can say, most of the times you want to plainly slap her in the face, but that would attract the alien predators. Btw who designed the creatures? Another bad decision. The film and the plot though are nicely dramatic at times. But who lets a 4-year-old walk with absolutely no surveillance whatsoever in a lethally compromised planet for f's sake?! Who gets pregnant on aforementioned planet? Why on earth would you leave a helpless pregnant woman alone to go reminisce your grief and guilt over the death of your little brother though you know exactly what can happen? Why go fishing on that day with your other son? Why does the dread of a pregnancy and imminent childbirth on aforementioned planet need to be taken further dramatically by stepping on a pointy nail on a wooden step while water and blood flow between your thighs? Is it not already catastrophic enough that the frigging baby is coming in a postapocalyptic world? Why this cheap exaggeration with a nail in her foot? Why is this a horror movie? It is a disaster movie. All sorts of catastrophes happen on the same day. Birth of the baby, death of a caring --or careless, since it depends how you see it- father, both kids gone missing lighting a camp fire on top of a silo, then falling into the silo, aliens hunting them every step of the way and all on the same day, though their last encounter was year ago as their little boy was killed by an alien, aliens in the house, the soundproof cellar they built for the baby flooded and ruined, another alien in their other cellar... The film could have gone with the title "As bad as it gets", because it gets awfully bad, all lost on one day. And the only good thing is the baby and that the hearing aid can overpower an alien depending on the frequency. Anyhow, it is a decent film, but it is nothing you haven't seen before and only the acting and the premises deserve a good rating.