One of those "It's good if you don't think about it" movies.

Rating: 6/10 (25 April 2018)

It's present day. For over a year now, the world has been taken over by monsters that are blind and hunt by sound. The Abbot family are hiding in their home doing normal white-people things. Like playing Monopoly. One of them does something unthinkable: They knock over the most fragile lamp in the world, which shatters and makes A SOUND.
Now they all sit around in intense silence, hoping no monsters come. They hear a crash on the roof. Is it one of the monsters come to eat them? Of course not. It's just some raccoons. The family breath a sigh of relief and go back about their business.
But those raccoons just made a loud crash on your roof. They totally blew up your spot. You should be TWICE as a freaked, not relieved!
But why are there still chirping birds and noisy wild life in the first place? The human race is almost wiped out, but loud raccoons still run amok? Seems like a stretch. Not as much of a stretch as the premise of the movie itself. How did these blind creatures defeat all the armies of the world?
It's shown in the movie that they're not invincible. All you have to do is shoot them. You see a lot of newspaper clippings and headlines announcing that the monsters hunt by sound. So we had them figured out by the time society was still intact and newspapers were printing. The US military has killer lazer powered robots that can murder you with a teleporting penis rocket. How are we going to lose to a bunch of myopic guillermo-del-torro looking creeps?
According to the beardo dad's white-board that he keeps in his basement (which is a thinly veiled exposition of the setting) there are three monsters in the area. Why not hunt them down? It'd be super easy. Attract them with a loud noise and then take them out. Why didn't the Navy or Marines think of that?
The Abbots have a gun... a shot gun. Why not something quiet, like a silencer or a crossbow? The town is abandoned, so just ransack a gunstore.
The Abbots have a sound proof crawl space, but they don't live in it. Instead, they live out in the open where farting means certain death. Why don't they just sound proof the whole basement? Would that be too easy?
How does the house still have electricity? It can't be hooked up to a generator because that makes a lot of noise.
At one point in the movie, the dad and his super wimpy son visit a waterfall. He tells his son that it's safe to talk because the noise from the waterfall is too loud for the monsters to hear them. So... why don't they live next to the waterfall?
Why do the Abbots (with a fairly attractive husband and wife) have such an ugly, annoying daughter?
This is one of those movies that's only enjoyable if you just stop thinking about it. That's hard to do when there's zero comic relief to take your mind off of it. No blood or nudity, either (PG-13 alert)!
Nevertheless, it's still an entertaining movie. Totally not deserving of a 100% on rottentomatoes, though. Come on Guys!