A Quiet Place Review

My favorite thing about this film was how the guy sitting next to me kept going:

“Uh oh, uh oh. Watch out! Oh no oh oh, don’t go in there ooh, oh no!”

I’ve always heard about these people in theaters. I’ve never encountered one though. Thought they were a myth for a while. Just a story you tell to scare kids. However, now I know. They’re real. They’re very real…

AND THEY SUCK!

Enough about disrespectful thick skulled mouth breathing morons that ruin movies though, because this movie is great. It stars John Krasinski and Emily Blunt star as a married couple with kids living in world where monsters hunt by sound and only sound.

When I saw the trailer, I was worried this was just going to be Jump Scare: The Movie. However, I am very satisfied that I was wrong. The film has way more tension and dread than gotcha moments. There are a few jump scares but that’s a given. The tension is so good though.

There’s a scene involving rockets which is just so satisfying that I almost cheered. It’s great because the buildup is so good and the music swells, then the scene happens and it’s great. I think it’ll become a cliche to say, but this has good sound design. I love how this movie is just really one bad night. It’s a short movie and it feels short but it’s the perfect length. Doesn’t drag really.

It introduces the characters for a while and it’s not hard to like them. John Krasinski and Emily Blunt are great in this. They have charisma and it’s not difficult to root for them. The actors really have rely on their faces and emotions being that there’s only about five lines of dialogue in this.

A few of the family members have some growth and arcs toward the end of the film. The whole gimmick of the film is that you can’t talk. However that’s the one thing that Krasinski has to do with his isolated daughter, it’s nice. The monsters maybe could have looked scarier somehow. They don’t look that menacing in daylight.

Also, this film has a fantastic opening.

Or maybe I’m just sadistic?

Or both?!