Keep Quiet and Carry On

Rating: 7/10 (3 April 2018)

John Krasinski's third directorial effort 'A Quiet Place' is based in a world where making a single noise is life or death. Considering how implausible that seems in the current world we live in, one full of noise, it's hard for anyone to keep quiet these days but when there's the slightly unoriginal creature at your doorstep ready to rip you and your family apart, you adapt quickly (and quietly).
Where A Quiet Place gets it right is the quiet anguish of a family trying to survive while also trying to contain some sembalance of normality in their lives and the audience feels it (or at least I felt it). The movie appears to keep the tension throughout and it's more than the normal surival movie as this movie has a element of protection to it, there's something rather strange watching a father trying his best in a helpless situation. The Jim Halpert sub-verbal cues are on point and the scene's flow very well with no break's in the ultimate tension or suspence of the picture. Where the movie goes wrong in my opinion is the final arc of it, the spoon feeding of information where it's quite obvious what the weakness is but perhaps the character's aren't completely clued in as we are, the creature is one I've seen a multitude of times but it makes sense to stick with the same formula and structure of previous movies, other pains I have are nonsensical because regardless of all the setups you could possibly protect your family with I believe that I would have been killed moments after the creatures inception and at risk of sounding reductive the movie for me is about a family (and how difficult a process that really is) and individuals looking for a baseline security we all need for peace of mind. A scene that sums up the movie is where Emily Blunt's character admits that she could have protected there child if only she had carried him and John's character tells her to stop. A world in where you can't look away from your child for a second and as far as that premise goes, in a world full of noise, it would be sometimes nice to keep quiet for a change but only sometimes.