A Quiet Place (2018)

• Year: 2018
• Released: 06 Apr 2018
• Country: United States
• Adwords: Nominated for 1 Oscar. 34 wins & 124 nominations total
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6644200/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/a_quiet_place
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/a-quiet-place
• Available in: 720p, 1080p, 2160p
• Language: American Sign , English
• MPA Rating: PG-13
• Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
• Runtime: 90 min
• Writer: Bryan Woods, Scott Beck, John Krasinski
• Director: John Krasinski
• Cast: Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Millicent Simmonds
• Keywords: pregnancy, creature, post-apocalyptic future, alien invasion, survival horror,

	7.5/10
	82/100
	96% – Critics
	83% – Audience

A Quiet Place Storyline

The story of the young Abbott family is told starting on day eighty-nine of their ordeal. Unaware if anyone else on Earth is still alive besides them, they have to remain as silent as possible under most circumstances, which means no speaking, to evade deadly and seemingly indestructible armored creatures which track their targets solely by sound and which have led to the Abbotts’ solitary existence. This existence is made all the more difficult for eldest offspring Regan in being deaf and thus unable to gauge the issue of sound, which is why father, Lee, is constantly trying to devise ways to upgrade her cochlear implant if only for her survival. Under these circumstances, the family tries as best it can to lead as normal a life as possible with devised safeguards to protect them despite anything that may happen to them potentially to throw them off this routine of mock normalcy and survival. Through this ordeal, they also try to learn as much as they can about the creatures in the hope of someday being able to destroy them to regain their lives. For parents Lee and Evelyn, the first priority is protecting the children at all cost, which the children may not always see or understand especially concerning the day eighty-nine incident.

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A Quiet Place Movie Reviews

Not boring, but too many unanswered questions

As my subject heading states, I didn’t find “A Quiet Place” to be dull. However, it has so many glaring unanswered questions that I was unable to enjoy what I was seeing. Here are just some of the unanswered questions I had (spoilers ahead): How did the aliens appear on Earth? What was their purpose of coming to Earth? (It couldn’t have been just for running amok in the countryside? If the aliens rely on sound and not sight, how do they get around without bumping into things? Why aren’t the aliens attracted to the sounds of crickets, rusty swings moving in the air, birds, or raging rivers and waterfalls? If the aliens can’t detect noise from humans near raging rivers and waterfalls, why doesn’t the family just live next to the rivers and waterfalls? If the aliens are indestructible (as seen on a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it newspaper headline), why can they be killed by a shotgun? Why doesn’t the family find shelter underground instead of out in the open?

Look, I can accept some mystery and unexplained details in a science fiction movie. But when there is so much mystery and unexplained details as in this movie, the whole package then becomes very frustrating to watch. As a result, I can’t recommend the movie despite its original premise, good production values, and professional performances. They might be able to answer questions in the upcoming sequel, but given that sequels are usually worse than the original, I’m going to pass on the opportunity to see it.

Just can’t buy into the premise

The preposterous premise about these blind aliens killing anything that makes a sound is so hard to swallow that it just doesn’t grip the viewer. Of course once you start watching you want to see how the 2 likeable stars and their kids fare in this absurd situation. The childbirth is ludicrous.

Silly movie.

Well, at least they tried…

Well, I finally got around to watch the 2018 movie “A Quiet Place” here in 2021, since a lot of people have been telling me that the movie was oh so good and that I had been missing out on a great movie experience. Yeah, so I caved in and opted to sit down to watch director John Krasinski’s 2018 movie.

Sure, “A Quiet Place” was watchable, but it wasn’t an outstanding movie experience for me. Why? Well, for several reasons actually.

First of all, the movie’s storyline and concept was just not overly impressive, nor something new or particularly innovative. It felt like something that had been done and seen before already.

Then there was the thing with just too little was happening for about 55 minutes of the movie. And when things started to pick up, it was just not sufficient to make up for almost an hour wasted on essentially a heap of nothing filmed and showed in almost utter silence. Yeah, that was a swing and a miss for me.

And then there were all the inconsistencies and flaws in the movie. I mean, if these creatures were attracted to sound, why wouldn’t they be swarming at the creek where that sound was constantly being made from the running water, or congregating at the waterfall with all the noise that made. Or why would other creatures not be lured in by the noise of the one creature in the movie made, for example when it was assaulting the pickup truck or bursting through the corn silo? It just didn’t make much of any sense. Or why would the family not have removed that nail in the wooden board or covered it up with something so no one would step on it? Seriously? And I suppose there were no condoms around in this kind of apocalyptic event. Seriously? You have established that the monsters are drawn to sound, heck, it was even shown in a newspaper in the movie, and still they opted to fornicate and bring a baby into that world. A baby! Babies cry and scream, if no one had bothered to inform them, despite the fact they had 3 kids before that newborn. And they also opted to grow a corn field, don’t they know that a corn field is about as noisy as it gets when you move through it?

Ugh, the movie was just not cutting it. And I seriously wanted to enjoy it and get into it, especially since a lot of my friends praised the movie to high heavens. I guess we just have very different tastes in movies and in what constitutes good entertainment.

The movie has a relatively small ensemble of casted actors and actresses, but they did manage to put on good enough performances, despite having not that much dialogue.

Visually then I will say that “A Quiet Place” was interesting. Why? Well, simply because of the creature design. I really liked that. So many nice details and an overall imposing and terrifying creature design. That definitely worked well in favor of the movie.

I have part II lined up to watch as well, as my wife wants to watch it, but I can’t really claim that I am in much of any hurry to watch it, nor harboring much of any hopes or expectations to the 2021 sequel.

My rating of the 2018 “A Quiet Place” lands on a less than mediocre four out of ten stars. The movie was just too bland, and an hour in near silence just didn’t entertain me.