A Quiet Place is a small simple story, it almost feels like it could have been a Twilight Zone episode. It's the story of a family of five 3 months after aliens land and hunt and murder most of the populace. The aliens seem to be indestructible, are very quick and incredibly sharp. I suppose they eat the victims but we don't really see much of that.
Anyways something happens that you see in the trailer and the story jumps forward 18 months later. The family lives in a retrofitted barn and we get quite a bit of world building we know the family isn't alone thanks to a very cool scene in the beginning but they might as well be.
One of the twists in the story that has been hidden in the trailers is the role of the daughter, I won't spoil it but it's pretty much the driving point of the plot. What is in the trailer is the mother's pregnancy the baby is coming and how could a crying baby survive in this world.
The film takes the JAWS approach to the creatures...less is more and while I wasn't too much a fan of the creatures aesthetic it didn't feel too CGI. The movie has a basic two part structure with the first half being atmospheric horror and the second part is just a white knuckle panic. You've got a few plot contrivances that doesn't make as much sense as you'd like but it's still an amazing film and great
experience.
And that is why the film is worth your time and effort to see it in a theater because it's a film that you
experience. This is one of those films that you go to see and experience it. It's not going to have the same impact at home and if you dissect certain things about it it won't make sense but it's not really about that. It's a movie focuses on your senses and your emotions.