A Quiet Place Part 2 is the follow up to 2018’s surprise smash hit A Quiet Place which dealt with a world where even the slightest noise attracted aliens to people and killed them, John Krasinski returns to write and direct this sequel and Emily Blunt returns to star as the mother of the Abbott children who now head out into the wider world now that their home is destroyed after the events of the first film, on their travels they meet an old neighbour (Cillian Murphy) but whether he will welcome them in is another question.
I was very keen for this movie as the first film was one of my favorite films of 2018, it was a great idea for a Science Fiction/Horror film that Krasinski brought to life very well and this was one of the very first films to be delayed due to the pandemic (one of my cinemas already had it in their system ready to go for release the next week) but now some 14 months after its initial March 2020 release date it’s finally here and was it worth the wait.
Thankfully yes it was, this is one of those sequels in that 2 out of 10 group where it matches its predecessor and not in that 8 out of 10 group where sequels come and we anticipate them only for them to bitterly disappoint (Avengers: Age of Ultron anyone), Krasinski does a great job directing the film and there is more dialogue scenes in this film but there are very good workarounds to make them work so they don’t violate the core rule of this franchise.
Also there is a great little prologue concerning Day 1 of all of this starting that also works very well and I thought to myself watching it “Day 1 of Covid.”
As for the cast Blunt is great as always but the showstealers are Murphy and Millicent Simmonds who have the biggest storyline and they make it work very well, there are also a number of great action horror scenes that definitely had me on the edge of my seat in the cinema.
But alas there is a bit of a problem with this sequel and that is like sequels of old (The Empire Strikes Back really solidified this) the story opts to split up the family onto their own little adventures and I felt that didn’t work very well mainly because the storyline with Blunt’s character, her son played by Noah Jupe and their baby isn’t that great and I would’ve personally preferred if the family had stayed together and gone with Murphy and Simmonds’s characters on their mission as that storyline worked very well.
And so that was A Quiet Place Part 2 and it is a very good sequel that did not disappoint even if I feel that the first film was the better film, 3 and a half out of 5.
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