An overhyped film with a story that brings you nowhere

Rating: 6/10 (27 December 2018)

Due to the trend in different social media pages, this movie earned a lot of praises due to its, say, "new" concept. However, anyone who's watched Wahlberg's "The Happening" know that this is not something new. Anyway, I still gave it a try.
Let's start it off with the acting, Sandra Bullocks' (Malorie) performance is outstanding, as she has always been. I can almost see some Winona Ryder (Stranger Things) in her eyes and her acting. This is hands-down the best thing the movie has. The rest of the cast was meh.. except for like John Malkovich (Douglas).
Now the most frustrating part this movie ever had to offer is the most important story. It actually brings you nowhere. Too many angle that the story could interestingly turn into but it kept moving straightward into nothing. The movie only focused on the question "who should die next?". And to sum that up, we got a whole bunch of UNDERDEVELOPED characters dying! When people get killed I was like "What was his name again?". Really, characters were forgettable and their deaths won't even bother you. Movies really had to put on some character-development on their characters, its extremely important. It's one tool the viewers can feel some attachment to the film. But this film just kept on throwing in some new faces and kill them off later on.
The movie only focuses on survival, that's it. It's like 80% of the dialogue aren't important. The only important plot only appeared on like the last quarter of the film, and it explains why they're on the river at the beginning of the movie.
Too many questions this movie left. We don't even know what these creatures are, why they came or what are their purpose. They just kept on going with full killing frenzy except for the psychopathic maniacs. We don't even know why they can't enter a house. The world this film made was too thin.
All in all, this movie has some great potential, but wasted. It lacks explanation. You remain in dark for the entire time and questions never get answered. The ending was a disappointment that added more questions to the already hundred questions you had when watching the entire film.