Thank God for Fast Forward. Consistent-Plot Goggles required.

Rating: 5/10 (27 July 2018)

I am giving this movie points for an interesting premise and some good suspenseful scenes. Other than that this was a fairly stupid movie. As bad as the movie is the ending was worse. The death-girl character made a bad movie worse. I felt absolutely no connection to her character even though I wanted to feel bad for her pain and sense of guilt. After about 30 minutes I was hoping she would run away or get snatched by a creature. Not out of anger, just to get her out of the way. Her character was a bad distraction wrapped inside a bad movie. I eventually fast-forwarded whenever she appeared in the film, which lowered my frustration with this film.
Please consider the creatures hunt by sound. There is even a scene where a person purposely yells to attract the creatures. Also, sound from a simple toy attracted the creatures. Yet when the family sets off a major and lengthy fireworks display that rivaled the 4th of July and New Years to draw out one creature creeping around the house (and it worked), absolutely no additional creatures were drawn to the numerous extremely loud and frequent sounds from the fireworks show. How did all but the one creature inside the house suddenly lose their hearing? After that, at the lame ending one shotgun blast in the basement lured hundreds of creatures to the house from every direction.
What was also odd is somehow creatures who hunt by sound wiped out humanity to include tanks, battleships, F-22 Raptors, and every professional military on earth, AND at no time while humanity was being destroyed did anyone at MIT or in Germany, Russia, Middle East, Asia, etc consider sound as a weapon against creatures who hunt by sound. Just think, all they needed was a signal or test-tone generator and a microphone to turn the tide of the war. For all we know a dog whistle may have worked just as well.
Even less believable is one lady with a shotgun, who just expended a ton of energy giving birth with no one to assist, accomplished what a few billion people around the world with 100 percent of their strength and armed to the teeth with weapons such as AK47s, grenades, night-vision goggles, etc. could not do, which is kill the creatures. I view this as more of Hollywood's feminist propaganda. Please do not get me wrong. I love strong women, but Hollywood is just ridiculously over-the-top with their portrayal of what a strong woman is. Strong does not equate to super-human.
If you are wondering what I consider to be very good sci-fi horror movies; Alien, Aliens (2), Terminator, Terminator 2, Forbidden Planet (classic), etc.
Overall I had high hopes and moderate expectations but I did not enjoy this movie. I wanted to due to the unique aspect of sound being the greatest threat, which I thought was interesting. Fast forwarding helped a lot. I did really enjoy a few individual scenes in the movie. The suspenseful scenes captured and held my attention to the point I didn't even want to blink for fear of missing something. That said, a good movie requires more than a few good scenes regardless how good those scenes may be.
If you choose to watch this film I recommend watching the first ten to fifteen minutes (up to the first scene of someone getting snatched). Then fast forward to the last thirty minutes or so where a creature is stirring inside the house. If you watch this film in its entirety, keep the coffee hot because you are gong to need it. I am a tea drinker myself. You are also going to need to put on a pair of Consistent-plot goggles in order to not see the holes in this film. Enjoy.