A Quiet Place Part II Review: A Silent Thriller

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What happens in A Quiet Place Part II?

A Quiet Place Part II opens on day one of the disaster. The Abbott family is in town for a baseball game. As Marcus takes his place to bat, a flaming object passes over everyone’s head. Mass hysteria begins, as people scramble over each other to return to their homes. As the monsters touch down on the ground, even more chaos ensues as the family tries to escape. Flash forward back to the present day, the movie picks up where A Quiet Place ended with the remaining Abbotts leaving their home towards a new safe area.

Who are the characters in A Quiet Place Part II?

Regan Abbott is the daughter from the first film who knows has taken over her father’s role in the family. Regan is resourceful, smart, and just as determined as her father to find others who may have survived. Emmett has given up hope and just wants to be alone. When he gets the chance to help the Abbott’s, he reluctantly agrees and slowly begins to warm up to Regan. Evelyn Abbott is just trying to keep her kids alive the best she can while still recovering from the birth and injuries from the first film.

A Quiet Place: Part II Review

A Quiet Place Part II is a very captivating movie, and an absolute treat to see in theatres. As someone who didn’t enjoy the first one very much, I wasn’t sure what I was getting myself into with this one. I’m pleased to say it’s a much better movie. The suspense is some of the best in recent memory, and the characters are awesome. I loved the flashback at the beginning of the movie because it gives a lot of backstory as to how we got here, and it also explains away how we know one of the more prominent characters. Outside of that, it’s also one of the most intense, action-heavy scenes in the movie.

I thought the plot of A Quiet Place Part II was one of its best features. Coming off the emotional ending in the original, the direction of the second was a little bit unclear. That theme disappears once the movie gets rolling. It is entertaining, heart-warming, gut-wrenching, and sometimes a car crash you can’t look away from.

The moments of terror or high tension are relieved really well by character interactions, but because of the idea behind the movie the tension doesn’t ever really go. It’s more of a constant build-up, and then something happens. And then the suspense starts building again. It’s a wonderful cycle, and the movie is so, so captivating. The ending is super sudden, and I didn’t love it, but with the third movie in mind, it does leave a lot more open for interpretation by the director who takes over the series.

Due to the amount of silence, this is a spectacularly made movie. The attention to detail and the focus on every small sound made it a blast to watch in theatres. It’s another take on horror from a unique lens, with some imagination behind the ‘big-bad’. It makes me think of Nope, where the entire team behind the film works so hard to capture your attention through cinematic elements, scaring you by building the atmosphere.

The characters are well-written and relatable. I thought Emmett, Cillian Murphy, and Regan Abbott, Millicent Simmonds, were the best characters and the best actor/actress in this movie. The emotional moments shine through because we become emotionally attached to their journey and what they have gone through, something that is often missed in horror films.

A Quiet Place Part II is a great movie. The plot is really solid, and I loved the constant attention to detail. It isn’t the scariest movie in the genre, and I could feel the jump scares coming, but that didn’t stop me from jumping anyways. Overall, a much better movie than the first and you should strive to see it in a theatre-like environment.