A Quiet Place: Part II: Neon NZ Review
A Quiet Place: Part II: Neon NZ Review If A Quiet Place thrived on its intimacy, the sequel takes the world so richly - yet so sparsely - created by John Krasinski and expands it, without ever losing the reasons the first film worked. (Though there are arguably a few too many repeated beats from the first film scattered throughout). Opening with an utterly barnstorming, thrill-a-moment edge-of-your-seat sequence that shows what happened on Day 1 of the alien invasion in a small American town, A Quiet Place Part II sets its stall out early on, as it continues the story of the Abbotts and their push for post-apocalypse survival. Jumping 473 days later, the film plunges you back into the immediate aftermath of the Abbotts' fatal encounter at the farm and their sudden need for survival. Forced to go beyond their boundaries, new mother Evelyn (Blunt, terrific in the first, but sadly sidelined in a lot of the movie), son Marcus (Jupe) and daughter Regan (Simmonds, terrific throughout) mu...