Nicely twisted and creepy

Rating: 8/10 (23 December 2018)

An innovative apocalypse film that many unfairly compare to "A Quiet Place" because it has the similar plot that you have to give up on one of your senses in order to survive. The origin story however is older and thus it was not really stolen.
Anyway, to get this out of the way the film is thrilling, twisted and offers several good performances. First of all Sandra Bullock is great and convinces. Its an interesting character and thankfully not as one-dimensional as you would expect. She is like a lion mother and thats how powerful her performance is. Great job. Trevante Rhodes was fine as well, he can do better tho but he felt like the good soul within the chaos and that was somehow relieving, thanks to his friendly and good hearted charmes. Sarah Paulson unfortunately only had a small role but very effective and she commands the screen wonderfully. John Malkovich had the perfect character for him, however it was too much "on the paper" that did not hurt his performance at all, but the role was more of a cartoon. I really liked Jacki Weaver who had some good moments.
The score was great and fitted the atmosphere and mood perfectly. I really loved some of the cinematography, especially during the scenes on the lake. Great work. Generally nice screenplay that offered a lot of depth and concentrated more not he characters, their bondings instead of sole on the happenings and the solution for the happenings. Another strike for Netflix.