Travis

It's a movie based on keeping silent to survive, with the protagonist being a deaf girl. My issue with this movie is that you're lead to believe the family of the deaf girl have the upper hand because they "know how to live in silence", but this makes no sense as the deaf girl is pretty loud at times and doesnt know it, like when her dog is barking loudly, her making a noise in the pharmacy or her calling her friend (not knowing if his phone was on silent or not )putting him in danger and then having his voice with the volume on, you'd think after your mother was attacked by noise seeking bats you'd turn the volume on your tablet down even if you were deaf, you'd see the icon for volume just to be sure. It was at that point I realised if the movie writers weren't going to make the characters live by the rules they created then I just can't root for the characters, it's like they all have a deathwise. At no point do they try to muffle their cough like the Grandmother or Muffle there scream of pain like the mother with her bite. It's just really stupid actions carried out by a family that "knows how to live in silence " The family also don't really use sign language to the fullest extent only sometimes signing and whispering or even just talking at a low volume. I think they clearly missed an opportunity to have the whole movie in sign language from her perspective maybe that could of saved it. Even so the movie is just full of plot holes and forced plot situations like when the kid asks to ride with the Dads friend in his car but suddenly decides to switch cars just before the Dads Friend crashes. The creatures as well are not very convincing there's not much told to the audience about them, we know they came from a cave and eat meat but I wonder what they ate in that sealed cave for hundreds of years to reproduce into those numbers. They are also fairly strong after living with what has to be very little food supply and they're not afraid of sunlight, I just couldn't see how this would be a realistic apocalyptic level scenario. I think with movies like a Quiet place and bird box if you're going to do a movie that's a similar concept since it's already been done you either do it differently ,do it better or don't do it at all. And the writers should of chose the latter.

This movie is probably one of the worst I've seen, so bad that I had to write a review, from the get go it opens up with a weak premise a group of salesmen are down on their luck with bad sales leads and the top salesman from the company comes down to tell them to sell more or they are fired. The top sales man is played by Alec Baldwin who makes a very brief appearance, not particularly a good one , just shouts at the sales men and swings his brass balls around. It's not a demanding performance that took much depth over shouting and cursing at sales men. Most of the dialogue in this film is crap (just like the sales leads), the dialogue consists of sales men cursing at each other for 1hr and 40 minutes and just constantly talking about the sales leads which makes two of the sales men steal them and sell them for money, that's it. The plot doesn't go anywhere apart from that. And to stress again about how bad the dialogue is, I really don't see why anyone thinks this is a good movie, I mean the word 'Leads' is said over 100 times it's all the dialogue is about there's literally nothing else for 1hr and 40 minutes. Just an hour of the word leads being repeated again and again and again and Sales men shouting and cursing at each until 2 of them get frustrated break in to the office and sell the leads for money. Apart from Al Pacino's character who provides a decent monologue (a rare piece of dialogue in the film that does not mention the leads) about being your own person and having no morality which is a comparison to the hard boiled salesman of their time, This movie opens with nothing and closes with nothing like a bad sales pitch, Making my regret my purchase of the film more than one of the characters regretting his thousand dollar real estate investment. 1 Star