Clever but kind of predictable

Rating: 6/10 (18 December 2018)

To be honest, I wanted to write a review just because halfway through the movie I thought there was an obvious flaw. The ending was addressing it, although it could have been a different movie if they would have used this idea from the start.
It's very easy to relate to 'A Quiet Place', a story with children, make no noise replaced by do not take your blindfold off. But I guess it's easier to make a movie without sound than without visuals. The blindfold thing is a nice workaround but somehow you might think a blindfold should not be enough to protect you.
Anyway, it's a movie that keeps you on your toes because you can easily guess what can go wrong. I will go straight to what I didn't like or could be improved.
Another story with kids. Anyone who's a parent will think what if I'm in such a situation with my kids, what would I do, how scared would I be to loose them. I don't like that idea, those movies are playing this card too much in my opinion. Grown men, or women, taking on supernatural stuff, zombies or whatever, I don't mind, just don't play with our feelings when it comes to children.
Thinking about 'A Quiet Place' it reminded me of 'the sixth sense', and how ghost stories were suddenly popular again in movies around 1999-2001.
Finally the story is good for a novel, you don't need to explain what happened, but somehow it feels all too easy. It is sometimes good to leave it to imagination, and in the end from the point of view of a character, they have no clue and probably will never know what those being are, why they want people to commit suicide (maybe it's a good way to wipe out a population, but then again what if it is just a virus). I mean telling a story without really telling it might not be enough.
I tried to write some big stories myself and I was often confronted with that idea that I want to focus on the part of the story I really want to tell and thought how can I do without explaining the whole thing, because the supporting story might be weak, I'm not one of those writers who are creating their own world to tell a story. Of course explaining too much might make the story a little less scary, but the question is do you want a great trailer or a great movie?