To anyone looking for a suspenseful experience, absolutely worth the watch.

Rating: 8/10 (22 December 2018)

This is my first publicly written review, immediately after finishing this movie I was stunned at the quality of the film and of my experience and wanted to check what the general reception was. I've seen a lot of people comparing it to other movies for some reason and giving it negative reviews. I've seen A Quiet Place and found it to be entertaining, but it did not thrill me, it did not keep me in such suspense that I was at points completely tensed up physically wondering what would happen next.
I feel that the negative reviews saying that this movie isn't scary or gripping set their expectations on a different kind of movie. They expected to see monsters, they expected to see blood and gore. They expect answers, they want to be told in detail exactly what is happening, but that is NOT the point of this movie. There are plenty of other horror movies out there that will put a big spooky monster on the screen, show it cutting off a few heads before a writers' relief character reveals the weakness of the monster and the protagonist eventually defeats it and everyone gets the warm cuddlies.
The suspense and terror comes from not knowing why any of this is happening, from experiencing the struggle for survival from the protagonists point of view. Every instance of conflict builds on this tension, a new form of threat is discovered that both the survivors and you as the audience begin to worry about. The time-skipping pacing works very well within this movie, setting your expectations for how dire the situation becomes later in the plot and building intrigue early in the movie when you have no idea what is happening. As the viewer is caught up with what the main character has experienced up to this point, pieces of the puzzle that is this "threat" begin to slide into place, and you become more and more aware of how much danger they are in. You become understanding of the bizarre and at times ridiculous "rules" they must go by to survive. as you witness the failures they experience in the past.
If you are a horror addict like me that is looking for a suspenseful experience that avoids the cliche and overdone(the worst of them anyway), you will find it here. Its not that I consider this movie perfection, but a genuinely gripping experience is becoming rarer and rarer to find in modern horror. To me the experience of the journey is much more valuable than having all of the answers neatly boxed up in front of me, and my lingering questions only serve to fuel my imagination.