A Quiet Place Part II is a horror movie, the sequel to 2018's A Quiet Place. This installment picks up right where the first one left off save for a flashback to introduce Emmett(Cillian Murphy) a neighbor from when life was normal. After the events of the first movie the family must leave their home and make their way to the only signal fire they see on the horizon. There they meet Emmett who is initially reluctant to help them but who does so when Regan(Millicent Simmonds) sets out alone to a functioning radio tower to broadcast the feedback from her cochlear implant to help beat back the aliens. Sound convoluted? That's not even the half of it!
Simmonds is given more to do in the sequel she's the defacto lead, which is great, she is more than up to the challenge but the script fails her. Blunt's Evelyn is bafflingly sidelined for most of the run time. Murphy is mostly wasted and Noah Jupe, who plays Noah, is injured early on and beyond(believable) screams and gasps he doesn't have much to do.
The original was effective because of the conceit and the extensive use of silence, ASL, and sound. That interplay and tension isn't quite abandoned in Part 2 but almost and the absolutely controlled neatness of the plotting at the expense of character strains credulity to the breaking point. Writer/director John Krasinski is so concerned with creating an ah-ha cross-cutting crescendo of a finale he forgot to populate his story with actual humans.
Too many absurdities to ignore rendering it if not unwatchable at least near constantly eye-roll inducing.
Currently in theaters and available to rent on most VOD platforms.
Don't See It.
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