Well Executed Seen-it-Before Suspense

Rating: 5/10 (1 May 2018)

Really wanted to like this film. Enjoy the stars. Trailers suggested the situation was interesting. The need for silence and the dramatization of this was very well rendered.
The situation however, has many difficulties however. No explanation for the nature of the threatening creatures. The time line suggests the characters adapted to their lives in record time. It also suggests they made dubious decisions given their circumstances. No attempts to congregate with known other people in the same situation seems strange given proximities and difficulties.
Basically the film's background and its very large explanatory holes are just a make believe fabric to lure on into the idea of what it would be like to live in enforced silence. Neat idea. But to sustain a movie with no more to offer than this. Each tension point is pointed to and the results are entirely predictable.
Basically, nice acting and interesting idea met an overly familiar formula. Hard to give this much more than a mere passing grade. There are better movies to spend your money on.