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This is my first review on the site, even though I've been utilizing IMDB for years. I felt obligated to rate it after being suckered from the advertising to see it. DON'T fall for the overrated reviews, this film is mediocre at best. I should have known better when they were giving it 100% ratings from critics here and on rotten tomatoes. This is the last time I'll let myself fall for the hype and fake reviews and do the proper research before viewing. If half of the positive reviews on the film are actually legit, then maybe it is due to the increased pussification of America because it is not scary at all. Films like The Descent and It Comes at Night were WAYY better with a similar plot/setting and they were ignored or butchered by critics.

For this film being rated PG-13 with very little dialogue, good luck with trying enjoy it with all the moron teenagers talking and laughing half the time. The film itself lacks any edge of the seat scary moments. The monsters/aliens have no explanation of how they arrived on earth or anything about how to defend yourself besides being silent. You would think if this was a worldwide thing that the military or scientists would have some noticeable presence or solutions on how to deal with this mess.

Why would the couple even continue to have a baby in this type of world where silence is a necessity to survive? Once the baby was delivered, it was laughable how quiet the baby was, hardly any crying if any. The characters just seemed to be dumb with how they handled everything. They knew that the river/waterfall gave off a lot of noise to hide from the creatures and could have built a shelter to live in along the coast, but they stay in their home in the middle of a corn field. Instead of having dozens on security monitors in the basement, they could have just placed alarm clocks throughout the woods to distract the creatures as they moved from place to place. The ending was also very lame and corny, nothing that you haven't seen before. For a true horror fan, it might be worth just one watch, but don't waste your money on it in the theater because it's defiantly not worth it.

One of the biggest disappointments I've had in many years. I had good expectations that were completely dashed. Almost nothing makes sense in this movie. The plot of the story is not understood, in fact, there is not even a story. For those who like monsters, ok. Otherwise it's a waste of time. Not even Emily Blunt's reasonable performance can save this very bad movie. I don't understand the good rating that other netizens gave...

It is BORING. There are some okay parts but for most of the movie I just desperately wanted to check my phone while watching it.

But I'll tell ya what -- do you enjoy being able to hear 200 people coughing, people cracking their knuckles, people chewing on popcorn, people walking out of the theater, the booming bass from adjacent theaters, and people making farting sounds as they recline their leather seats in the movie theatre? Then oh boy this is the movie for you, because you can hear everything single ambient sound for over an hour of mostly silence while you're forced to read subtitles.

In the end the plot is a super serious and completely un-fun combination of Signs and Mars Attacks, with none of the intelligence those movies muster. For the family we're supposed to care about? I wanted every single one of them to die. Buncha dummies. "Hey what's the worst thing we could do if we lived in a world where monsters attack anything that makes a sound? Ok let's do that." I was totally rooting for the aliens, or monsters, or mutated praying mantises oh btw MAYBE YOU COULD HAVE EXPLAINED THE WHERE THE MONSTERS CAME FROM JOHN KRASINSKI YOU TOTAL JACKHOLE (likeable jackhole but still a jackhole)?

I was more scared of a nail than I was the monsters. I laughed out loud in irritation during some of the most supposedly intense scenes, which by the way sure it's annoying to other people in the theater because they can totally hear you.

Look, it didn't completely suck. But it wasn't what I would call good. I'd never sit through it again, and I can't recommend it for any reason other than to find a nice quiet dark room in which to take a nap for an hour or so. You'll wake up when things start to get a little louder, and you won't have any trouble understanding what the hell is going on -- you won't have missed a thing.

This movie is stilted and boring...all atmosphere...and not much else...got about 15 minutes into it and gave up...but it has a 8/10 rating here...which tells me that there are a bunch of fake reviews...and that imdb is probably in on the game...

3/10 for the concept, the characters were annoying as they kept on making idiotic choices and didn't seem to ''jell'' as a family, also, the aliens were unconvincing and their soundtrack appeared to have been lifted straight out of Terminator Judgement Day. Boring. Enough said.

This movie was definitely not worth the hype. I really wanted to like this. So many questions went unanswered. I really enjoyed the acting by the girl who played the daughter. Honestly the acting I felt was good but that's really the most positive thing I can say about this movie. Not sure why it was rated so high it made absolutely no sense at all and that's ok I love anything zombie so I'm used to movies not making any sense but these movies are low budget horrors not as high rating as this was. Which brings me to the horror tag on this movie. This was a drama movie. Not horror or thriller, just drama. I watched it completely and was rather annoyed with the ending. If nothing else is on and you have nothing else to watch for the evening then by all means please watch this, just don't expect a horror, thriller or even very good movie.

Why didn't they just give them the old Earl from tremors 2? You know a r/c car with a half rack of dynamite strapped to it and a little detonator on it. Could've wiped them out from the front porch. Every other unreasonable thing aside, this movie is short and the CGI isn't half bad that's why the 3 star rating.

Absolutely full of glaring plot holes - this is a movie that collapses completely following decent promise. It becomes so infuriatingly stupid that by the end I wanted them all to die.

I literally have no idea why this is rating as well as it is. Awful, awful, awful. Don't waste 90 minutes you'll never get back.

I'm not going to repeat every plot hole that has been said by several level headed, logical people on this forum, other than to say it has MANY. I was so distracted by the implausibility of most of the plot, that I couldn't enjoy the movie. Seemed to me to drag on-and-on.

Are there some good suspense scenes? Yes. Is the acting pretty damn good by the 2 lead actors? Yes. Unfortunately the plot makes this a pretty poor movie in my book. If you have a logical mind, this one is a no-go.