Since it finally seems safe to go to theaters, consider seeing this on the biggest screen possible
Emily Blunt and Noah Jupe in A Quiet Place Part II. Photo: Paramount Pictures I’m not sure how America’s most charisma-free movie star wound up becoming one of our most effective suspense directors, but here we are. With A Quiet Place Part II, John Krasinski confirms that the taut brilliance of the first A Quiet Place was no fluke. He proves his mastery right from the opening sequence, a stomach-gnawing flashback to the day the sound-seeking aliens first came to the quiet town of Millbrook.
Grim salvation comes for Evelyn and her kids in the form of their traumatized and grieving neighbor Emmett , who has set up camp in an abandoned factory. For safety, they hide inside a furnace, with a towel placed against the latch to both muffle sound and prevent locking themselves in. While inside, a clock on a timer reminds them when to step out and breathe more air. As bad a time as the Abbotts have had, it seems Emmett has had it even worse.
It’s hard not to be reminded that A Quiet Place Part II was supposed to come out early last spring, when its release was abandoned due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s also hard not to relate on some fundamental level to the movie’s anxious, desperate, dystopian mind-set.