We start off with a black screen that says Day 89. A family of five is quietly sorting through the contents of an abandoned pharmacy in standard post apocalyptic fashion. We see that one girl has a cochlear implant. There is a small boy who walks quickly through the store, searching for toys. An older sister followers him and stops him from making noise. The boy finds an electronic toy, the kind with flashing lights and beeping noises. His father panics and his eyes go wide. He gets the toy from the child before it can make any noise and he removes the batteries. The child is the last one to leave the store, so natch, he grabs the toy and the batteries. As seen in the trailer, this is the last mistake the child will ever make.
A Quiet Place was a good movie. Lots of tension and suspense as we watch the family go about the business of staying alive in a world where making any sound will attract the attention of the monsters that live in the area.
This is very much a suspension of disbelief film. We are never told where the monsters came from or why they are here. We are never shown how two adults and three kids run what looks like a pretty large farm to me. We never see the family gather the miles worth of sand they use to muffle their footsteps everywhere they go, include the town which is some distance away.
At the end of the film we are given a tiny bit of hope, but this is a hollow victory at best, since it appears these are the last people on earth. Our remaining heroes may live another day, but so what?
The acting was good and the writing was good, it made me worry about the characters, even though nothing about the situation made any sense.
