Excellently directed, but the concept has a lot of holes in it, which ruin the film in many ways... The directing was great, but the film was far too short! What are they planning on making 2 more movies after this one? Are they really trying to juice this for as much $$$ as they can get?! Makes me a little upset because they could easily wrap this up in three, which I would prefer, and four just seems greedy to me, and played out! They could close it out in three, which would make far more sense.
What does bother me about the concept is how did these aliens come from outer space, traveled all this way, and they are basically primitive retards? How did they build a spacecraft to get to earth with that type of retarded mind? Are we really going to find out that they are controlled by some omnipotent overlords on a space ship which we haven't even seen yet? Which would be really porr execution to make it known by movie THREE! If there are overlords, who are far smarter than their pawns, then we should have known about it in movie 2! And if they get the idea from me, then they better contact me because that is bad karma, and give the credit to where its due! The idea is great, but the actual follow through with the entire plot has many many holes, which could easily be fixed, if they had someone like me helping, but I guess, you have to be a movie star nowadays to be able to write a screenplay that's picked up.
Secondly, the way they found out how to kill them with sound is something the US government, and many other governments, could have figured out quite rapidly. Clearly, they would test all sorts of things out, and they would have many many underground, impenetrable bunkers (since these aliens are so low IQ) which would allow them to live and sustain themselves as long as they like to figure out how to stop these things. It certainly wouldn't take them 400+ days to realize that sound waves is something that could potentially render these low IQ aliens into easy targets to be destroyed at will. Maybe for the simpletons out there, who don't know much about our government, or science would think this story is plausible, but for an educated viewer, it just seems too convenient, and unrealistic.
Thirdly, what happened to the Air force?! Between all the nations in the world, we are talking 100,000+ military planes like F-16 and a plethora of bombers capable of bombing and attacking these creatures, so why are they not used? Especially since America and other nations have aircraft carriers! If these aliens cannot swim, and we have nuclear powered aircraft carriers, without hundreds of aircrafts out there, and fully loaded with bombs etc, then there is no reason they are not out there bombing these creatures into bits and pieces! Or, at the very least, at the beginning when this all began, but there isn't anything about airplanes, or the military, and none of that throughout the first two movies, which makes ABSOLUTELY no sense.
Lastly, the whole part with the weirdos at the boats, who prefer to live amongst the alien creatures, and were waiting for people to come to the boats so they could capture them is absolutely asinine! Seriously! These guys would prefer to wait around, after MORE THAN a year goes by, waiting for someone to come to the docks, while they just wait there the entire time? Absolutely unrealistic! Lets be real here, after a year goes by, how many people do you think go to the docks there? They were probably the first people in months, and so they wait patiently the entire time, whilst there these aliens all around waiting to kill them? They would rather wait by the docks to kill people etc than to get to safety?
I think Krasinski did an EXCELLENT job directing the film. It was absolutely superb, and even though there were so many holes in the plot, which did irritate me, it was executed brilliantly! John, if you are reading this review, imagine how much better the next two films would be if they were REALISTIC! You can get peoples hearts beating fast with great directing, but what makes a movie go down in the history books as the BEST is that it captures people in a way that they believe what they see is possible, and it could happen in real life, which is not the case with the first two films, but hey, if you're looking for a side kick who can help you write something that is amazing and realistic then look me up because you have a great idea here, but I think you have too many Yes Men with you, and people are not giving you authentic answers about your plot and writing. B. Corvalan is my name.... I already have a career, but I certainly would love an opportunity to be involved in a project like this, and making movies that are realistic, where people actually think that could be them in the movie, and put an end to unrealistic Hollywood films! My profession is psychology, so I know what people want to see, and what people crave the most, more than anything, is to watch a film that takes them into a world where they think it could actually happen to them...