The first A Quiet Place did not build a world so much as suggest one, in snippets of conversation and props scattered around set. It was enough: The basic idea of a post-apocalyptic landscape stalked by monsters sensitive to sound was all we needed to know to white-knuckle through every tiptoe through the house, or gasp at every unsuccessfully stifled scream.
But it couldn’t last. The film ends with a place of refuge turned into one of carnage, waterlogged and broken and littered with monster body parts. So A Quiet Place Part II sends the surviving Abbotts — mama Evelyn (Emily Blunt), daughter Regan (Millicent Simmonds), son Marcus (Noah Jupe), and a newborn baby — outside the walls that once kept them safe, to see what fresh horrors await and take us along for the ride. And while they don’t find anything out there to quite rival the pleasant shock of discovery from the first film, they come up with more than enough to justify a second trip into their world. Read more…
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