'A Quiet Place' A Review

A Quiet Place is an action/horror movie that takes place in the near future where blind hyber-hearing monsters have wiped out the majority of the human population. The movie opens on a surviving family investigating an abandoned pharmacy. Mom and dad, Evelyn(Emily Blunt) and Lee(John Krasinski), watch over there three children oldest Regan(Millicent Simmonds) who is deaf, middle child Marcus(Noah Jupe), and youngest Beau(Cade Woodward).

Krasinski is servicable but obviously outclassed by Blunt who's solid and formindable presence centers the film in its more flimsy moments. Simmonds is the other stand out with her confident, assured, solid presence. The other two family members are little more then faint sketches, there to jump, run, and yell at the appropriate times which they do.

The conciet of the movie is its most effecting element. It drops us in after society has already crumbled and doesn't waste time or even attempt to explain the monsters. The sparse dialogue along with the ever present score serve to built and built and build the tension over the brief but impactful 90 minute run time. If you stop to think a lot of the characters and many of the logistics of the world in which they inhabit mightily strain credibility but the momentum is such that you mostly don't have that time.

A decent, mainstream, simple-hook, broad-appeal horror movie. Krasinski's most competent directorial endeavour by a mile.

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