Bad Movie with Good Acting and Production

Rating: 3/10 (26 February 2020)

Let's start with what's good about A Quiet Place.
The production is beautiful. How the concept was executed really made a difference in keeping me watching such a piece of trash.
All of the actors did a wonderful job. Even though their emotions were shallow and unbelievable, their characters had no depth at all, and their relationships were vapid and without nuance, they made me believe it.
So what was wrong with it?
The story was absurd from every angle. Creatures who kill anything that makes a noise would soon run out of prey, but here they are four years down the road still killing away. Where did they come from? Who knows? Be scared for the family and shut up.
Why would people continue to breed when babies are impossible to keep quiet? How is it that somebody is sinking into a silo of corn one minute, almost dying, and then hiding under a metal door, in the corn, without sinking, the next? The answer is the answer to every problem in this movie: it was convenient to the plot for reality to be inconsistent.
About twenty minutes from the end, one of the characters discovers a solution to the problem. Yay, they're saved! No, because they had twenty more minutes of screen time to fill up, so we just won't bother to apply the glaringly obvious solution until after some more horrible things happen and it's about time for the standard feature length ending.
Why in the name of all that's holy would somebody nail an extra large nail through the bottom of a stair nowhere near any other pieces of wood? Not where it attaches to anything, no just right in the middle of the stair, through the bottom and sticking right up out the top so that somebody can catch it on a sack of potatoes and then later forget that it's sticking up right in the middle of the board and step right on it.
I don't mind a little silliness on the part of a character. Sometimes it builds tension when they make bad choices with some questionable but understandable motives. But in this movie, it isn't about those types of choices: it's all about a series of unbelievable details that serve no purpose but to create crises. By the end of it, the good acting and production had been eaten by the horrible, horrible writing.