When Regan finds herself cornered by one of the creatures on a train, who better to fire the off-screen shot that saves her? But it’s Regan’s idea to find the nearest radio station and use her cochlear implant to broadcast a signal that could defeat the beasts once and for all.
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Though the movie empowers its two leading ladies - especially fan favorite Regan, whose cochlear implant already provided an almost-too-convenient defense against the aliens - the director sends Emmett along as chaperone. It takes some convincing to guilt him into helping them, but Krasinski (who takes sole writing credit this time around) loves a protective and potentially self-sacrificing father figure. The Abbotts are lucky that the first person they meet is an old friend, Emmett ( Cillian Murphy), who’s been hiding out in an abandoned steel mill. The dilemma: hunker down and defend oneself, Alamo style, or venture out and hope what’s left of humankind might still have some vestige of civilization left to it. While Krasinski’s core influences so far have been Steven Spielberg and Stephen King, the new movie also cribs from “The Walking Dead” and virtually every mainstream zombie movie that’s come before. By flashing back to that initial attack, the director can show us how the entire Abbott clan reacted to Earth’s new apex predator, offering a little more time with the family’s late patriarch amid a handful of ambitious close encounters (like the one where Emily Blunt’s Evelyn narrowly avoids being hit by an oncoming bus).įlash forward 474 days, and the surviving members - mother Evelyn, resourceful daughter Regan (Millicent Simmonds), kid brother Marcus (Noah Jupe) and a newborn whose crying could cost them all their lives - must leave the farm and seek shelter at one of the other encampments, marked by bonfires on the horizon. That’s a smart way around an unfortunate additional limitation put on the sequel: namely, that Krasinski’s character didn’t survive the original. Whereas “A Quiet Place” opened several months into a frightening new “normal” - one in which humans were no longer the top of the food chain - the new movie backtracks to the day the alien species arrived. You couldn’t help noticing the innocuous sniffles and coughs that accompany any public screening experience, except that now, as people cautiously return to theaters, such noises may trigger an extra set of anxieties. As a result, audiences found themselves attuned to every little sound in the auditorium itself. Things got loud when the monsters attacked, but most of the movie was spent in a state of hushed suspense, as the Abbotts made every effort to avoid the detection of creatures with incredibly sensitive hearing. It can be hard to believe that both the sequel and the instant-classic 2018 original were produced by Michael Bay, a filmmaker who has pushed the moviegoing experience to ear-splitting extremes, since Krasinski so effectively embraces the opposite strategy: Less is more, suggestion can be scarier than showing everything, and few things are more unnerving than silence. Well, if you’re vaccinated and feeling safe enough to step foot outside your home, Krasinski has crafted a follow-up that justifies the trip. They listened to the news when a deadly invasion struck, they played it even more cautious than their neighbors, and they made it this far.
After a delay of nearly as long from the original March 2020 release date, the fictional Abbott family - or what remains of it - now seems more relatable than ever.
There’s a certain poetry to that, since the high-tension horror sequel picks up just over a year into a life-changing threat to humanity. For many, John Krasinski’s “ A Quiet Place Part II” will be their first movie back since the pandemic forced theaters to shut down.
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