Even the always-welcome Stanley Tucci can't add any flair to a movie that feels so much like a relative of John Krasinski's 2018 smash hit.The Silence feels like a cheap rip-off of better products.Filmmaker John R. Leonetti delivers a blisteringly-paced opening stretch that effectively establishes the cataclysmic scenario...The Silence throws the taut brilliance of A Quiet Place into sharp relief, simply by doing everything wrong that the latter feature does right.This "stay silent or die" end-of-the-world jam is less pretentious than John Krasinski's debut, which is good. It also trades Emily Blunt for Kiernan Shipka, which is not an even trade, even with rabid bat-dinosaurs thrown in to sweeten the deal.I thought the acting was quite good but... you saw everything and I felt like there was no mystery left in the film.There may come a time when the Netflix algorithm grows sophisticated enough to cut out the middle man and write its own scripts, but until that day arrives, niche-targeted dreck like "The Silence" will have to suffice.Imagine A Quiet Place, but deeply mediocre.The Silence is a painful attempt to remake A Quiet Place, which came out the year before. Though this is based on a 2015 novel of the same name, the story has already been done perfectly, leaving little to be desired in this straight-to-streaming flick.Rather than settling for following a successful formula, The Silence pushes the tried-and-true premise from its upsetting origins to its unthinkable limits.The Silence makes very little sense. But it's very entertaining, so you might as well just watch it so you can tweet about it.While The Silence may lack the suspense of A Quiet Place the film still finds time to keep its audience engaged and invested in the survival of its characters.The Silence has the potential to bring audiences something new and terrifying, but it sadly fails to surpass other films with similar plots.Because The Silence sticks to the creature-feature plot structure established by The X-Files, I enjoyed it well enough.THE SILENCE may have lost the race to the screen to make a profound impact with its originality, but there are enough whispers of creative intensity and tender performances sprinkled throughout to give it flight.The Silence is occasionally entertaining, more frequently laughable, but always derivative.The Silence is guilty not of being an imitation of A Quiet Place, but of telling a comparable story not nearly as well.A clumsy, silly, and often sadistic apocalyptic thriller that props up a big premise and does nothing with it.The cult plot in The Silence is as poorly handled as nearly every other part of the film. With the exception of a great cast, headed by Kiernan Shipka, Stanley Tucci, and Miranda Otto, the film lacks any cohesion and feels almost unwatchable.The Silence has been reasonably well made by director John R. Leonetti. And he has assembled a surprisingly classy cast.