A Quiet Place: Day One
A Quiet Place: Day One is a 2024 American apocalyptic horror film written and directed by Michael Sarnoski, based on a story he conceived with John Krasinski. It is the third installment in the A Quiet Place film series, serving as a spin-off and prequel. The movie was released by Paramount Pictures on the 28th of June 2024.
The movie is about the early stages of the invasion by blind, extraterrestrial creatures with an acute sense of hearing characteristic with A Quiet Place film series.
The Good
The movie is a spin-off and prequel which means that you do not need to have seen any of the other movies in the series to watch this, nor do you need to worry anout remembering where the story left off, because this is set at the beginning Day one….
Following the footsteps of the other movies in the franchise, the movie has an intense atmosphere with palpable tension, sound and silence is masterfully used to create suspense.
The character focussed story gives the movie an emotional core, which draws one into the story as we follow the survival drama of its principal characters and the secret star of the movie.
Lupita Nyong’o as Samira a pessimistic and terminally ill cancer patient and her service cat named Frodo deliver a strong and emotive performance. Then there’s Joseph Quinn as Eric a British Student who is a having a hard time coping with… well everything and an alien invasion isn’t helping… took me few takes to remember why he looked familiar he was Eddie Munson in Season 4 of Stranger Things.
The Bad
A Quiet Place film series productions play their cards close to the chest revealing minimal information about the creatures… If one were expecting to get any more answers about why the aliens are here, where they are from and what their intentions are outside of the need to feed… you wont find them in this movie…
One glaring absence of explanation was as to how we never learn how people figure out that if you are not quiet you get killed… its like mayhem, chaos and fade to black and those who have survived now know ….. and we move.
Its not as scary as the first one… Maybe that’s because was already familiar the creatures and how they operated…
The movie plays off like a short survival movie where you are not sure who will be make it to the end and that’s pretty much the plot…
The Ugly
Lest you forget, its a horror movie, with alien monsters, it can get gruesome.
We are supposed to suspend disbelief, but the characters seem to suspend common sense as well, maybe they are giving the subtle implication that people are stupid and will get themselves killed for no good reason and drag others with them…..
Final Thoughts
A Quiet Place: Day One offers a glimpse into the tense beginning of humanity’s struggle for survival in the Quiet Place series… It doesn’t raise the bar set by the first movie but most importantly it does not drop the ball.
Have you watched on any of the Quiet Place movies?
~B
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