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And they lose their tiny minds at the sound of electronic feedback-a fact that Regan discovered with her cochlear implant in the first film and now puts to excellent use with the help of a small guitar amplifier. The creatures are still blind and rely entirely on their hyper-acute sense of hearing to wreak havoc. And since Krasinski is only a fleeting part of the cast now (in that opening flashback), his place is well-filled by a dad-like new character, a reluctantly helpful neighbor named Emmett (winningly played by Cillian Murphy). We see more of the monsters this time (although not so much that they begin to bore us).

A QUIET PLACE 2 MOVIE

There's a wonderfully well-shot attack at a marina, with uncannily nimble creature movements, and an island invasion that spoils everybody's summery day in the most violent possible way.ДЄn especially laudable aspect of the movie is the amount of effort it devotes to not being a retread of the first film. But it's the creatures-tall and toothy and altogether off-putting-who own the movie's several showpiece scenes. A clot of feral human strangers whom we'd really rather not meet. A nerve-frazzling rescue inside an abandoned train. Something is always going on, and it's not always monster mayhem. Krasinski is also attentive to the needs of pacing. (Also along for the journey is the infant Baby Abbott, a nipper so newly born that no one has even bothered to give him a name yet-welcome to the world, kid!) Now they and their wrung-out but undauntable mother, Evelyn (Emily Blunt), are trudging away from their wrecked homestead into a dark future. Krasinski's character, rurally inclined engineer Lee Abbott, has just sacrificed his life to save his children, the deaf Regan (played by the extraordinary deaf teen actor Millicent Simmonds) and her younger brother Marcus (Noah Jupe). So in a flash we find ourselves back at the end of the first movie. But he also knows the importance of moving things along (this film is only seven minutes longer than the last one).

Krasinski is already a master of this stuff (there's a shot involving an out-of-control bus that should go directly into the oh-my-God hall of fame). Then there's a ball of fire streaking through the sky then complete chaos and terror erupt. It's a sunny small-town afternoon, with a Little League baseball game underway. The noise kicks in right at the start, with a spectacular opening scene that takes us back to the day the space creatures invaded.

This may upset more fastidious viewers but will probably be fine with those who are basically in the mood for a full-roar monster movie. It was also a film with a title that was fully warranted: The first 38 minutes of its 90-minute runtime were entirely wordless.ДЄ Quiet Place Part II, the new sequel (or continuation of the story, as writer-director-actor John Krasinski has been putting it), is considerably noisier. The 2018 A Quiet Place was a movie about family values-chief among them, don't die a painful and horrifying death.

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