Have critics lost their minds???

Rating: 3/10 (24 July 2019)

It baffles me how critics are seeing this movie as something great. It's okay. Waaaaaaay too many flaws and that distracting out of this world. I don't want to repeat the obvious issues because they've all been stated. But I will point out the ones that were bugging me the most: Not camping near the river, not grouped up as a closer nit family in the face of danger (I felt there wasn't an amount of urgency to stay close considering the danger. The daughter wasn't checked in on enough for me to buy that they believed danger could strike at a needle drop. I mean, they did accidentally knock over the little lantern thing, so any thing could happen, right?). The little boy in the beginning walking so far behind the rest? Are you serious? Is danger not right around the corner?? This ain't no camping trip. I feel like there were too many "I just want this to happen" instead of actions logically happening. It seemed like there were the staircase step was marked out in the house but the nail was not noticed to be marked up? Or a pillow put there as a reminder/warning whatever? The use of candles to do what? Preserve the electricity? That wasn't made clear.
So those creatures. My biggest issue. They appear not fully thought out. They can hear certain sounds but not obvious ones. Feet pounding on the floor are obvious sounds. There has been amazing creatures in the horror world. These creatures don't strike me as "they destroyed mankind" creatures due to their heavy reliance on sound. I get that we don't know what the situation is concerning the military, but I can't help wondering if they figured out the clear weaknesses and set easy traps for those things. Because....they aren't that hard to catch on to. I mean, the family did.
So I guess since I've seen tougher creatures, these selective-hearing, blind-non-smelling-but-know-my-way-around-houses, can't hear people moving and breathing heavy but hurt from high pitch frequencies, creatures don't come off as "we can end the human race!" to me.
Saying this movie is amazing is a stretch. It's a good thriller, but oh boy, definitely wasn't thinking about making sense. Which is a shame. I'm curious about what will be focused on in the sequel.