This movie had everything you'd like to find in such a story: an unbeliavable but coherent opening, weird enemies, characters that are not that deep but that are all lovable (except for the grandma: we can't get rid of the "old whining woman slowing down everyone" trope soon enough) and even a mysterious man in black showing up mysteriously to spice things up. Then you check the time and realize there's only like 20 minutes remaining and start to wonder how the heck they'll wrap everything up before the end credits start rolling. The answer is very simple: they hurry up and squash every plot resolution in the last two sequences.
It's a shame because a number of storylines deserved a better development (how they handled the whole Flock of the Hushed affair was borderline criminal) but the authors decided to focus on family interactions instead. Comprehensible, but disappointing.
Review of The Silence
