Be vewy, vewy quiet...

Rating: 2/10 (22 November 2018)

...we're hiding from monstuhs!
I don't know where to begin. This movie irked me from the get-go.
Other reviews pointed out the implausibilities and flaws of this film, some of them I didn't even realize, perhaps because I was hung up on certain points.
Namely:
1) The film starts with the words "Day 89". Day 89 of what? The 89th day since the monsters mysteriously appeared? Since they somehow reduced the world to a post-apocalyptic reality? What?
2) Going along with point 1, the film does almost nothing to explain these creatures: where they came from, when they appeared nothing. We see some newspaper clippings and dry erase boards with some writing on them and nothing else.
3) There's evidently nobody around, yet newspapers are still being printed. Who delivers them? If those papers have been out for months or whatever, why are they still in such good condition? Why are none of them wet, for instance? Also, printing presses print papers, right? Printing presses are pretty damned loud. Trucks deliver papers and trucks are pretty friggin' loud also.
4) The parents tragically lose a child to one of the monsters...so they have another baby to replace it??? This made me seriously angry. Why? WHY would you bring another human into this world? WHY???
5) The baby is delivered by the mother alone in a seriously short time in the bathtub. Somehow the monsters hear none of this. Sorry, but fireworks are not that loud that they would completely drown out the all the sound in the area, especially when the mother screams in labor pains (as well as the pain from stepping on a nail) before the fireworks go off. The monsters are supposed to have this super-sensitive hearing, with what looks like multiple ears, or special apparatus that, presumably, helps them localize sound. So, sorry, I don't buy it. Also, that the fireworks are activated just as she goes into labor is just a wee bit convenient. Later, the woman moves into the shower stall for some reason; the reason is probably to provide a jump scare later.
6) After the baby is born and the father finds mother and baby, he moves them into the "quiet place" in the basement, but the baby is still too loud, I guess, so the dad puts a mask on the baby to quiet it and puts it in a casket. The mother then falls asleep on the couch, completely forgetting the baby for the next undefined length of time. But, however long it is, surely the baby needs some kind of attention in that time? Food, maybe? I dunno, seems like none of this is going to be very good for the health of the child. Anyway, at some point, a pipe breaks and the quiet place is flooded. Then the monster goes into the basement for some reason. If the monster hunts by sound, what is it hunting if nobody's making any sound? Which is it, movie? Also, how do the monsters know where they're going? We don't get the sense that they know by echolocation.
7) The monster is killed at the end by a shotgun. But we see one of the newspaper clippings say it's "indestructible". So what gives? Evidently, sound distortion from speakers and headphones renders them invulnerable to firepower. As stupid as that sounds, what other explanation is there? Or is it that the monster opened its mouth because of the sound frequency and its mouth is its vulnerable area? But the mouths would be open when the monsters attacked people, so I honestly don't know what the hell.
I give this a 2 out of 10. Despite the utter stupidity of the premise and the characters, I found myself caring what happened to them despite that; I found I didn't want them to die horrible deaths for some reason.. That's a testament to the direction and performances. But I just can't bring myself to rate this any higher. I actually feel insulted after watching this movie.