I made this account to review an equally awful movie a few years back.

Rating: 1/10 (27 January 2020)

I am once again compelled to sign into this account to absolutely tear into a movie that thinks it's hot stuff.
Starting off, the premise is okay. Could have used a bit more of back story, but honestly it's not terribly important. I can accept a lack thereof.
So let's start with the beginning scene, to introduce the monsters, we're shown a kid getting himself napped on a bridge over a river, by playing with a noisy toy. Alright so the things hunt by sound. We've established man vs... nature? Why not, we'll go with "nature". All good so far.
So let's fast forward, because this is where things go straight to hell in a hand basket and "things that make sense" right out the window. We're shown several newspapers that say we're on our own, military isn't helping, they hunt by sound! ect... ect... Wait a minute. Okay you're telling me that traditional print media is is still going to be publishing articles and distributing them to the public while these super-being sound hunter things are destroying the world? Ah hell, it's gonna be another delusional Hollywood director movie isn't it?
Okay in the grand scheme of things the above is admittedly minor, but it's really just a precursor to the nonsense that's about to hit your screen. So let's address the second biggest issue. WHO in their right minds decides "hey let's have another baby!" When the one we had last was too noisey and got eaten, and also the world? Oh I'll tell you who, the same morons who apparently couldn't figure out how to fortify a damn building, and left nearly every door wide open for their alien guests. You will never convince me that fortifying a building would have been too noisy, and they didn't have enough time. Those monsters had to start somewhere, and spread, and they had to spread while fighting with the military. There was time to fortify, especially if there was time for print media to run their giant printing presses and distribute "we're all doomed" articles to everyone. Ever been around a printing press? They're about as quiet as a nuke, powered by... Smaller nukes. But no one thought to nail a few windows shut. Nope, would have been too noisy. Oooh boy, here we go!
Alright sure, maybe I'm just being too critical, and expecting too much realism in my movies, so let's talk about the river scene. The river scene, where they yell next to the waterfall. Yeah, that one. Apparently, in Hollywood, understanding continuity and physics is illegal, because first off, last time I checked, yelling is louder than a toy, which is what got the first kid killed in the first place. But! Let's say for argument sake, the river and waterfall are louder, I'm fine with this for now. It seems like there was a lot of artistic license taken out on physics, as a lot of things seemed to be louder/quieter simply based on the need to force a scene to make sense. Lamp breaking, quieter than a raccoon running? There's several more examples of this, the fireworks scene, the basement scene with the nail, but whatever. I'll gloss over these too.
Let's talk about the hearing aid. This is the part I'm really interested in. Hey Hollywood! You ever heard of the AARP, or LRADs? No? Because it shows. For anyone thinking "what is this crazy guy in about" I'll explain: While the nuclear powered printing presses were making more noise printing those articles telling people "OMG ITS SOUND" and distributing them in what can only be described as the world's most quiet distribution network, they forgot two glaring issues I simply cannot look past.
1) The AARP exists, and they have hearing aids. They have OODLES of hearing aids. Are you telling me no one noticed their bingo sessions remained unmolested? C'mon Hollywood, try harder.
2) LRADs. These are weapons that are quite literally made of sound. They are sound weapons. They stand for "Long Range Acoustic Device". Are you gonna sit there and tell me that these super-monsters took down an entire combined global military, and not a single one of them thought "hey you know those things that are killing us? Yeah the ones hearing aids basically render defenseless? Let's point sound at them. No no, just a LOAD OF SOUND!" No? No one thought of this? Only the newspapers figured this out while running their nuclear powered printing presses, while the military just sat helplessly with their thumbs up their backs while the newspapers saved the day? Or is this movie just another case of Hollywood having it's head up it's collective you know what's, and either being too dumb, or thinking its audience is too dumb to catch these mistakes?
I'll go with the latter. In conclusion: just another craptastic crap sandwich of artistic license, and make believe physics that don't even follow their own made up continuity. Pass.