A Dumb Place

Rating: 5/10 (1 September 2018)

I cannot stress enough how many dumb decisions were made throughout the entirety of this film. The beginning with the child was dumb, they were already months into the alien invasion, you'd think his dumb parents would teach their dumb kid that SOUND EQUALS BAD. The film likes to focus it's shots on certain things to make you think "oooooh how clever" a lot of times, walking with no footwear and leaving a trail to prevent sound, the scene where the kid's are playing with wool pieces to prevent sound, wow how clever indeed. I know John Krasinski isn't known for his directing, but more for his acting roles. And at least the performances by him and Emily Blunt were pretty good, the kids were a mix bag honestly. The aliens themselves actually had very cool designs and I was left wanting more scenes including them considering the CGI was surprisingly done well. Although it's obviously fake I at least felt that there was an actual threat in the area. That's as much as I can say that I liked about this film. Again, dumb decisions over dumb decisions. The one that mostly bothered me was the fact that they had like a pretty decently sized shelter below the house floor, where evidently you can see that they're safe, they can speak as much as they want. But no, they prefer to stay on the outside risking their lives pretty much the whole damn movie. A Quiet Place was sadly disappointing, I was looking forward to it for a while and was left utterly unsatisfied.