Really huge disappointment -- may be spoilers

Rating: 2/10 (23 May 2018)

I really wanted to like this movie but it was just so dumb. How dumb? Let me count the ways.
1) They are in mortal danger, can't make a sound yet at the beginning of the movie they let their 5 year old trail along behind them like they are in the zoo. No, actually no good parent would let their kid trail along behind like that even in the zoo. Hold his hand you idiots. Take the stupid toy without the batteries jeez how did you all survive this long?
2) The monsters are attracted to noise but otherwise seem pretty stupid. Ignoring the obvious fact that they would need some kind of excellent location device such as sonar in order to navigate, so they would be able to locate you anyway, if they are that attracted to sound why not carry big sound makers with you so that if you made a sound you just throw that down the path and run like hell? Too obvious??
2) How come the monster could grab the racoon when it was just making animal noises but not the people when they were just making people noises. How come there are still raccoons if the monster things like to eat them and are so deadly.
3) Day 489. Where did that lovely huge field of corn all planted in nice neat rows come from? There would certainly not have been anyone to plant it. Start a motor get eaten.
4) They have ample power in their house. Enough to run like a bazillion lights out there. Where is that coming from 489 days after the end of the world.
5) Ditto the water. Where is that coming from? A well? Wells take pumps and motors and make noise. Municipal? After a year and a half don't think so.
6) So if they have all this electricity, why not set up a big radio a mile from your house that you can turn on with a switch in the house, then you could switch that on when you made a noise and attracted them.
7) Why is there a big f-ing nail pounded up through the middle of the stair tread? What the heck possible reason would you have a nail even bent over originally pounded up through your stair.
8) Whoever wrote this obviously has no idea how a cochlear implant works. There is no sound transmission electrical or otherwise even involved. The hearing aid sends impulses through the interface directly to the brain.
9) Oh and another thing. Any hearing impaired people I have ever been around are gesticulating like crazy all the time. Are they supposed to be using sign language because it looked like they could communicate a whole sentence with a finger up the nose.
10) and why are they always telling each other to be quiet? Like after a year and a half this is still news??
11) So she has a baby in what seemed like about two minutes. Lot of blood involved. Why was there all that blood involved? If a woman's water just broke and you got blood running like that you have a serious, serious emergency. I guess the one big yell she gave when the fireworks (in place of the more logical electrical sound generator which could have been triggered remotely) was all the labour she needed.
12) I guess the grain silo was supposed to be a safe place for the kids to hide and wait for their Dad. Complete with a beacon fire on the top, which lasted how long? About a minute. Great planning Dad.
13) And then we have the killer corn in the silo. Those kids were sinking in that stuff like a demon from hell was pulling them under. Except that corn is not like that. You can walk right over that stuff. And why did the dopey monster not sink? And why did the kids not sink when they hid under the door? And I gotta say, if by some weird quirk of reality someone did get sucked down under a pile of corn, you are not pulling them out. They are a goner.
14) So all this time they had some kind of shelter where all they had to do was pull a mattress over a hole in the floor and the bad boogie man monster could not hear them? Why didn't they just stay down there all the time?
15) Where did all that water come from that flooded the basement to thigh high level in about 5 minutes? And neither she nor he noticed this going on? Where are they anyway? Was there a second house or something?
16) The truck scene was really dumb, and the dumbest part was when it rolled down a flat road for about a mile after somehow getting out of the ditch it was in earlier. Did not see that coming.
17) And then they shot the guy. Say what?? If you can shoot these dudes why not just shoot them. They are blind!!! And not so smart. You could sit on the roof and shoot them all day long.
Stupid Stupid. Really disappointed in all involved. I really like John and Emily but this was just dumb. 8/10 rating. What is the movie going public becoming.