Very bad execution... Interesting concept

Rating: 3/10 (7 January 2019)

There's one simple approach of how to make a character (and thus your experience with a movie) interesting.
The character has to be:
1. Likable.
2. Competent.
3. Active.
Pick at least one.
But these characters are neither. Thus, they are not interesting and I simply don't care whether they live or die. Can't create any tension in this situation sadly.
Just bashing a movie is ease. But how could you make it better? Well, it's a silent movie, so you would need some stellar performance to make a character really likable in it. Forget it.
The plot is about a bunch of people doing daily activities while concealing themselves from monsters... Can't make them particularly active.
So.
Make!
Them!
Competent!
Look at all the negative reviews, each and every one talks about how utterly stupid the behavior of main characters is. In this movie the brainless creatures/monsters run towards anything what makes a sound. Clock, scream, broken glass, child's toy playing. They don't show any sign of intelligence at all. Humans, on the other hand, have brains and technology at our service. So show us how you use it to outsmart these feral beasts! That's all you need to make this movie good.
To put it to perspective, do yourself a favor and re-watch Predator, the original one. Although the characters are cliched army 'dudes', they clearly show that even not knowing who they are up against, they tried to set up traps. And even succeeded in the scene where Predator is captured in a net behind Arnold! Think about it for a second.
The team managed to capture in a net an invisible(!) alien, which dedicated the life to hunting(!) the most dangerous(!) pray in the Universe(!). And the team knew literally nothing about it. That is extreme competence, I got invested from the very beginning. If anything, I wanted them to succeed.
Characters in this movie though? Oh, you didn't figure out to make a sound-proof room (or move near waterfall) for the delivery and first days of your newborn? Well, that's really stupid, please let the monsters bring you out of your misery as soon as possible...