surprisingly lackluster

Rating: 5/10 (23 May 2018)

***Warning spoilers ahead***
Loved the premise, had great reviews and scores, was extremely excited to watch it.
I got a really bland mediocre horror movie with awkward pacing, and not much bread or depth to it.
I realize you should suspend belief when it comes to movies, and believe me I enjoy a fun movie to watch and can look past tons of stuff, i'm in no way an "unrealistic movie" snob or anything. But I found SO much didn't make sense all throughout the film when it came to story, characters choices, monster mechanics, setting etc.
So this bozo and his family are like the only ones left? what was so special about them? honestly? they had a farm? I don't get it.
"she's really smart" says the mother about the deaf daughter.
repeat that a few times and tell me how "smart" these characters are.
These characters are some of the LAST survivors.
daughter: she basically caused the kid to die in the beginning MONTH 3 of this monster Apocalypse, by giving him back his noisy toy, not like it's life or death or anything with MASSIVE demon like alien creatures stomping around attracted to sound. but she didn't give him the batteries so it's cool.
Little boy: Takes batteries, again MONTH 3 as if they don't understand the implications of making noise ON MONTH 3. proceeds to put batteries in toy, toy makes loud noise, kid dies.
again these people are some of the last few survivors, because apparently they are smart and make great choices, they really understand the severity of the situation.
Dad: proceeds to get wife pregnant during an Apocalypse where monsters are attracted to the SLIGHTEST sound. yea not like childbirth and a baby crying will be a problem. FOR YEARS you will have no control over this baby and the noises it makes and it won't even begin to understand the situation and the dire implications until about 4-5 years old. and think about it, this will be one of the first and most important thing they teach this kid, "we birthed you into an absolute craphole where if you make a noise you will be pummeled to death by monsters" g thanks mom and dad.
Mom: bag gets caught on something on the stairs, a really huge sharp nail that just appears there out of nowhere after MONTHS of using the stairs and them being totally fine and normal stairs. why is there even a nail in the middle area of the stair? she tugs with all her might and finally gets the bag off, but then doesn't check what the bag caught on? really?
Daughter again: again the daughter is "smart" but can't figure out the connection between her hearing aid and the monster going nuts when it listens to the frequency of it (while it's RINGING in her ear causing her great pain) then the monster running away fully distraught hot and bothered after this occurrence happens. MULTIPLE times. still doesn't connect them though until the very end.
not to mention OTHER PEOPLE and government and MILITARY:
Ok what we have is basically giant EAR monsters with "armor". nobody at all thought to blast them with some kind of high frequency? the government wouldn't figure that out? wouldn't think to try it?
they die to a shotgun blast to the dome, but apparently the military and their fighter jets, and tanks, and rail-guns ETC can't mess with these things.
they would have been WIPED so fast it's not even funny. good game bro.
But I guess the movie uses some sort of "video game" logic, like first you have to weaken them by blasting them with your apple ipod coca cola hearing aids, THEN blast them with your standard farmer shotgun. that's some Zelda crap, no wonder the government couldn't figure it out. should have hired Link.
So it's this bozo and his family surviving as some of the last survivors I guess, along with everyone near a recording studio.
All this aside, the movie was extremely bland, the whole theme was being quiet, so there was extremely minimal interesting character interaction and dialogue, the whole first three months we have NO idea about, it just drops you onto the "dust settled" post apoc portion of the story, probably easier on the budget and the writer to not have to even explain these monsters at all or to have really cool "first attack on the city" scenes that obviously would have cost hundreds of thousands/millions of dollars to produce. i personally would have loved to see the chaotic introduction to these monsters first arriving, and an actual resolution/wipe-out.
wasn't god-awful, wasn't painful to watch, but felt like a worse version of stuff I've seen dozens of times before. brings really nothing new to the table at the end of the day. in a lot of ways, it was just an overall lazy uninspired movie in my opinion.