The original A Quiet Place was pretty neat: a suspense thriller where Earth’s population had been decimated by man-chomping aliens who see through sound, forcing the survivors to creep around as silently as possible — or else. The sequel, A Quiet Place Part II, was…well, I have no idea, because I’ve never gotten the chance to see it. I didn’t pay for a ticket, rental stores are dead as a concept, and the only place it streams is Paramount+.
I do know that the more times you present the same idea, the less interesting and more watered down it gets. Take the six million Jurassic Park sequels we have now. Or compare the original Purge to the thousand Purges that have occurred since. It’s worse if it’s a prequel since there are no real surprises; you’re guaranteed to experience nothing but rehashed material. Looks like A Quiet Place has hit this wall.
A Quiet Place: Day One doesn’t feel like the first two; it just looks like a generic, apocalyptic “run from the monster” movie. Add to this, we’ve already seen what Day One looked like in one of the other movies. This chapter was completely unnecessary, but….so was a musical remake of Mean Girls and THAT made money.
By the way, this isn’t A Quiet Place Part III; that’s a separate film that’s coming out eventually. Day One is more of a spinoff; the “Fear The Walking Dead” of Quiet Place movies. It stars Lupita Nyong’o, Joseph Quinn (hey, Eddie Munson is in this), Alex Wolff, Djimon Hounsou and Denis O’Hare. The film will be out June 28, whether anyone hears it.
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