2. Rather than an apocalyptic sci-fi horror movie with chases and jump scares, which is what we were expecting (people-eating aliens attack Manhattan!), it's more of a moody character piece about two lost souls finding each other in a time of tragedy (a dying woman finds a reason to live!). It's not bad for what it ends up being... but it's not the traditional horror movie audiences might be expecting.
3. Even so, there are effective sequences of what might happen if all of Manhattan had to be cut off from the rest of the world. And the aliens do attack our human heroes more than once, so that box does get checked.
4. We've never encountered a cat that obedient or that interested in helping/paying attention to humans.
5. Djimon Hounsou is always fascinating , no matter what he does. Apparently, he's reprising his voiceover role from the second movie.
6. We're just not sure if these monsters can sustain a franchise. Characters try hard to be quiet, then a character makes a noise, then monsters attack. Is that enough?
7. The first movie, of course, was top-notch on every level. A modern classic.
8. There's still something chilling about a New York City scene involving an explosion that covers everyone in white ash.
9. Whatever weirdness was happening in that construction site with the aliens and the eggs and whatnot, it's surely laying the groundwork for A Quiet Place: Week One.
10. Wikipedia tells us that Patsy's Pizza is a real place.
11. Is the presence of a clickwheel iPod suggesting an early 2000s setting? We're too lazy to work out the timeline of the original movie to estimate when the original attack was supposed to have happened. Cool detail, though.
11. Is the presence of a clickwheel iPod suggesting an early 2000s setting? We're too lazy to work out the timeline of the original movie to estimate when the original attack was supposed to have happened. Cool detail, though.
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