Bad Writing of Book & Movie bring down acting.

Rating: 6/10 (26 December 2018)

This movie is really just a gimmick to put people in a contrived scary predicament. There's no plan to explain why or how it got this way because the book doesn't either. It's like a King short story that just wants to give the scare but doesn't have time for anything more. Some things I really couldn't get past with both the book and the movie. How is it that everyone just figures out that people are dying because of something they saw? There's never any evidence explained, people just all quickly go to blinding themselves so they won't see it. Never do we see such experiments to determine if the threat was viral or something much more plausible. Ok so everyone is supposed to just go along with people just figured it out somehow. Fine. Then you have more unexplainable contrived things happen you have to just accept and go along with I won't spoil. Where The Quiet Place contrived it's gimmick to have to stay quiet "Hear No Evil" this one is the second monkey. "See No Evil" and if you want to see a movie about the last monkey you could check out Pontypool. There's your "Speak No Evil" gimmick film. A perfect trilogy for the 3 monkeys. But none are really brilliant. Some have better cinematography, writing, or acting. But they are very narrow and claustrophobic stories you can't consider outside the contrived bubble it exists in. Worth watching though for a few good moments maybe.