However I am willing to admit that I was wrong. This film is awesome. Kicking off with the positives, easily the best thing about this film is the acting. There is not a bad performance in this film. Emily Blunt is amazing as this broken woman who recently lost her husband and is trying to protect her family, Cillain Murphy is a great addition and plays a very interesting character with a good arc but the kids are the standout. They are given more to do and they pull it off with ease. By the end of the film, their characters are given more development and really good character arcs.
I also really liked the story. What made this sequel work so well is it feels like you can watch the first film then this and it will feel like a semi complete story. The first film builds the foundation, the world building and the sequel continues off of that and expands on it where it makes sense to have a sequel and with the recent announcement of a 3rd film, I think all three films will feel like one whole film broken up into three. That is how you do a sequel and potential trilogy right.
John Krasinski really shows what a talent he has for directing. He's able to capture the same tension from the first film and just build it up even more. There is two moments in this film where multiple sequences are happening and you feel the tension building, you cannot predict where these sequences are going to go and with fantastic editing and Krasinskis master directing, these sequences have fantastic pay off.
I was also impressed that Krasinski didn't forget one of his other talents from the first film and that is foreshadowing. There is a brilliant amount of foreshadowing and setup of sequences. The writing for the film is also really good and luckily this film is still as memorable as the first film. I'm still thinking about it now as I write this.
And lastly, I really like the design of the aliens and the CGI for them looks really suited.
However unfortunately it's not perfect and it does have some flaws so let's move onto the mixed aspects and first it's just to say this is a more dialogue based film. It still contains a lot of sign language but when the first film was extremely minimal of dialogue, this film has a lot of dialogue and I didn't mind it at all but I feel people will have different feelings about what made the first film so special.
Now as we saw in the trailers, there is a flashback sequence and honestly, it doesn't feel needed. It's a great scene, very tense and great to watch but if you edit it out, it doesn't effect the movie that much. It feels like it only exists to give John Krasinski more screen time.
Finally there's one character who is put in a situation and they need to make a decision but I feel the decision he makes will anger a lot of people. I personally think this character was put in an impossible situation but at the same time, I would get why certain fans would be angry with this character.
Now let's move onto the negatives and I only have two; first the films second half is a lot better than the first half. The first half is more character focused but it also drags an awful lot to the point where I wasn't feeling how I felt about the first film. Then the second half kicked in and there's so much to keep the viewers engaged.
There's also a subplot that explores a section of survivors who go to extreme lengths and it feels underdeveloped. I felt a bit more interested in that section of the story a bit more than the aliens themselves and I feel if the film had a longer runtime, we could have got that.
Finally and this is a little nitpick but I didn't really feel as much emotional depth than I did from the first film.
But besides all that and despite I do feel the first film is better, has a more special meaning and placement, this is a great film worthy sequel that sets up a 3rd film and I'm saying this now: The Quiet Place trilogy has the potential to be one of the best horror trilogies out there. Fingers crossed.
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