Stepping into the unknown, this new adventure leads the Abbotts to Emmett (Cillian Murphy), a friend from their former community who no longer holds the same affection for the struggling family that he did in the pre-monster era.

And, as in the first movie, teenaged Regan (Millicent Simmonds) has her own ideas of how they should find a new path forward. After a still vague explanation of the aliens’ arrival, we jump ahead 474 days to the moment when Evelyn Abbott (Emily Blunt) and her three remaining children leave their busted-up farmhouse in search of help. Yet so many of us had questions about how the earth was infested with uber-aggressive and hyper-hearing aliens and what would happen to the Abbot family after the credits rolled.Ī Quiet Place Part II fills in some of those holes and although the “gimmick” continues, Krasinski pulls off the story extension with just as much thrill as the first. The film had a satisfying conclusion and didn’t stress over explaining the sci-fi element.

The first installment of what is now a horror franchise was delicately directed (a word not usually used to describe this type of flick) and original (another hard-to-obtain adjective in one of the most crowded genres). Lots of directors claim they never intended to make a sequel after a title goes big, but I do believe director John Krasinski’s claim he didn’t intend to continue A Quiet Place.

A quiet place 2 rating