"It's SOUND!"
"A Quiet Place" Is Good Old Fashioned
By-The-Seat-Of-Your-Soiled-Pants Movie Entertainment
And Easily One of 2018's Best Films...
"A Quiet Place" is
top-notch entertainment!
OK - for sure there are
event holes in the plot galore (as some have gone to pains to point out) - but
I say Blubber my Bum to that. Because I have not seen a movie deliver so much
with so little in such a long time.
Real-life husband and wife team
John Krasinski and Emily Blunt show once again they are both individual and
collective class acts in "A Quiet Place" – Evelyn and Lee Abbott
silently clutching their petrified family as they run from empty towns.
Eventually after horrible losses – they end up as a small but still naked and
vulnerable unit – surviving a year later on a wheat farm in a world invaded by
ravenous beasties (Dad's long list of unanswered SOS signals show that few
others seem to have been so resilient or creative in staying alive).
Newcomers Millicent Simmonds
and Noah Lupe play the Abbott kids - Reagan a deaf girl watching over her
younger more able-bodied brother Marcus (who is even more scared of the
oversized gremlins than his older sister). Mum and Dad principal leads Krasinski
and Blunt needed quality here and man did they luck out. Both young actors are
revelations - each having to convincingly show amped up naked terror without
the use of words or for that matter any kind of sound. To make matters worse -
mummy's tummy is expanding and that innocent one's newborn noises will draw
those pincer-like gnashers and blood frenzy if they're not minute-by-minute
careful and uber prepared.
The slimy but fast-vicious
creatures wow - cleverly introduced bit-by-bit to maximise their impact.
They're similar in creepy slimeball horror to that other-worldly ugly bug in
Netflix's fabulous TV Show "Stranger Things" – now a cult programme
that has thrilled millions across two Seasons and made most of its young leads
global stars.
For sure the arrival,
wherefore and purpose of the aliens is perhaps left a little too sketchy – but
this is a film that stands on the family's survival alone and I thought that
was all "A Quiet Place" needed (keep to the point – pure and simple).
Many also expressed disappointment in the ending, but I thought it was
economical and shotgun brilliant. And kudos should also go to Marco Beltrami for his staggeringly effective score (jump baby jump) and to Scott Beck who co-wrote the script with Krasinski and Bryan Woods.
After "A Quiet
Place" and its expertly strangulating-your-jugular primal tension (delivered for a mere $18 million dollars when others costing ten times that don't deliver at all) -
Hollywood will be sitting up and taking notice of John Krasinski, throwing scripts at the tall American by the post Brexit dozen (he also Directed the movie and IMO should be nominated for his
work).
Fab and then
some...and well done to all involved...
