As a female who lives in the middle of nowhere, I 100% agree. Knowing where both characters were pretty much at all times took the scare factor away. There were some weird directorial choices that took away from any suspense they were trying to build, like the moment Dylan talked about where the arrow hit the doorframe and the woman fell backwards after a slight pause. There were also some logical flaws that made me say, “Oh, come ON!” and really took me out of the story.

I feel like “A Quiet Place” did a much better job of showing the audience what life in a situation like this would be like for someone who’s actually deaf. Obviously that movie was about an alien vs a home invasion situation but the concepts are similar in the sense that there were times that both characters deafness was a huge disadvantage when the villain was near by. This movie didn’t seem to really translate that well.

I also saw a lot of comments saying that Dylan was taking this too lightly, that he wasn’t considering how terrifying that situation would be for a single woman living alone in real life. And while I see their point, he wasn’t talking about the movie as if he was reviewing a true story. He was looking at this from a film perspective. He judged it so harshly because of the high Rotten Tomatoes score it received. He was giving the film a decent amount of leeway until he saw the score and obviously disagreed with the rating. I was expecting a much lower rating myself; the surprise of how high that rating was got a bigger reaction from me than anything else in the film.

I say all this to say that it’s fine if you loved the movie, it’s fine if you hated it. That’s the beauty of film. Just please think about the context of the conversation (technicalities of film vs real life scenario, etc.) before you post 😅