The trailer of this movie was ok, so I thought to give it a go. The story ark could have potential, however there are so many plot holes to begin with and then the storyline chosen is also very odd that with the sudden ending you get a "what the F" feeling quickly and it doesn't go away.
The first plot hole is that these creatures do not eat each other, but however manage to survive for millions of years. They are blind, go wild on any noise even if it is a crowbar but again do not eat each other but yes they recognize their own eggs. Wonder if they can smell, if so they would be able to smell 'meat', so there goes the 'just throw something somewhere and I'm safe' theory. The fact that they go wild on any noise creates at least one other plot hole. They can break through car glass, why did they stay in the cages for all those millions of years? The earth sounds probably went very deep, but they just sit round for two people to pound on their door. Another problem is that instead of hide in a cold place the government could have made an easy like fishing net trap with a large loud speaker. So no reason to write this story ark actually.
Let's move on to the humans. How stupid can you be to go in your car and where'd you want to go? They only make stupid decisions in this movie, but more on that later. First... I don't really understand the reason for the deaf girl. The writers probably though that this was a good way for the family to communicate without making an noise, but the noises a human makes without speaking are abounded, besides that it would have been far more interesting to see how a family copes without sign languages. This is the easy way out.. And then your friend, whom at that moment can't really know yet how serious the threat of these creatures is, wants to cash in his paycheck so out of blue wants to be left alone to heroically die.
Because your car makes noise which you do not want to make AT ALL you decide to go walk in a forest, where the leafs on its own and the twigs on the ground when you walk on it make of course makes no sound what so ever... After hours you come across a house, the only way to reach is to crawl through a drain pipe with your back pack still on, which by the material it's made of always makes noise. Always! Now the creatures just attack any noise on sound only, not by sight. But now they precisely fly several feet into the pipe, to only go for that very small snake. How lucky.
Then the writers decide to make the obvious threat letting mum potentially die, if you do not go out there again to get antibiotics. Remember you just walk for hours through a forest you are not familiar with, in an environment you do not know, but can easily find a small town and manage to go back and forth in one day. Of course you meet an nut case who cut out this tongue. Again... why this story ark? You can still manage to talk (a bit) without a tongue and you can certainly make noises! This guy suddenly knows where you live and you are stupid enough to not lock the gate behind you (twice actually! The first time you come back and the second time you ask them to leave you alone). Mum takes a bath (seriously..? try to let your water run without making noise.) and daughter uses the internet, why that still works is a miracle. The power houses and servers makes a lot of noise and need maintenance by humans and where other devices have a dead battery within one day this one works on both ends, but ok let's go with the fact that the internet still works (roughly). You go to bed and because nut case wants your daughter 'who is fertile' they make a trap with all the same phones.. More phones than the size of their group and of course you want to lose your connection with the rest of the (internet)world you easily discard your device like that.
And then poof... you find yourself instantly in the cold and start doing a Robin Hood with your best friend who survived and hunt these creatures one by one. I don't know what Netflix was thinking or what the writers drank during the write out of this movie, but seriously. With a cast like this, they owed us a better script.. a better story. If not for Miranda Otto, Stanley Tucci and John Corbett (who does a lousy job.. sorry..) this movie would be a 0 out of 10. Now I can give it a 3 out of 10 and give you the advice to only watch if you want to kill some time by watching a movie that doesn't need to much thinking.
The first plot hole is that these creatures do not eat each other, but however manage to survive for millions of years. They are blind, go wild on any noise even if it is a crowbar but again do not eat each other but yes they recognize their own eggs. Wonder if they can smell, if so they would be able to smell 'meat', so there goes the 'just throw something somewhere and I'm safe' theory. The fact that they go wild on any noise creates at least one other plot hole. They can break through car glass, why did they stay in the cages for all those millions of years? The earth sounds probably went very deep, but they just sit round for two people to pound on their door. Another problem is that instead of hide in a cold place the government could have made an easy like fishing net trap with a large loud speaker. So no reason to write this story ark actually.
Let's move on to the humans. How stupid can you be to go in your car and where'd you want to go? They only make stupid decisions in this movie, but more on that later. First... I don't really understand the reason for the deaf girl. The writers probably though that this was a good way for the family to communicate without making an noise, but the noises a human makes without speaking are abounded, besides that it would have been far more interesting to see how a family copes without sign languages. This is the easy way out.. And then your friend, whom at that moment can't really know yet how serious the threat of these creatures is, wants to cash in his paycheck so out of blue wants to be left alone to heroically die.
Because your car makes noise which you do not want to make AT ALL you decide to go walk in a forest, where the leafs on its own and the twigs on the ground when you walk on it make of course makes no sound what so ever... After hours you come across a house, the only way to reach is to crawl through a drain pipe with your back pack still on, which by the material it's made of always makes noise. Always! Now the creatures just attack any noise on sound only, not by sight. But now they precisely fly several feet into the pipe, to only go for that very small snake. How lucky.
Then the writers decide to make the obvious threat letting mum potentially die, if you do not go out there again to get antibiotics. Remember you just walk for hours through a forest you are not familiar with, in an environment you do not know, but can easily find a small town and manage to go back and forth in one day. Of course you meet an nut case who cut out this tongue. Again... why this story ark? You can still manage to talk (a bit) without a tongue and you can certainly make noises! This guy suddenly knows where you live and you are stupid enough to not lock the gate behind you (twice actually! The first time you come back and the second time you ask them to leave you alone). Mum takes a bath (seriously..? try to let your water run without making noise.) and daughter uses the internet, why that still works is a miracle. The power houses and servers makes a lot of noise and need maintenance by humans and where other devices have a dead battery within one day this one works on both ends, but ok let's go with the fact that the internet still works (roughly). You go to bed and because nut case wants your daughter 'who is fertile' they make a trap with all the same phones.. More phones than the size of their group and of course you want to lose your connection with the rest of the (internet)world you easily discard your device like that.
And then poof... you find yourself instantly in the cold and start doing a Robin Hood with your best friend who survived and hunt these creatures one by one. I don't know what Netflix was thinking or what the writers drank during the write out of this movie, but seriously. With a cast like this, they owed us a better script.. a better story. If not for Miranda Otto, Stanley Tucci and John Corbett (who does a lousy job.. sorry..) this movie would be a 0 out of 10. Now I can give it a 3 out of 10 and give you the advice to only watch if you want to kill some time by watching a movie that doesn't need to much thinking.
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