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MILLICENT SIMMONDS LEADS A TENSE, STEALTHY SEQUEL TO NEW FRONTIERS…
PARAMOUNT
A QUIET PLACE PART II 15 TBC
OUT 4 JUNE CINEMAS
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JAWS
1975 It’s all fun in the sun, until old bitey-chops arrives. Did Krasinski take notes?
FINDING NEMO
2003
An old croon-tune, a kid gone rogue: AQPPII resembles Pixar with a body count.
THE WALKING DEAD
2010-PRESENT
Are some survivors not worth saving? Ask AMC’s zombie epic. Shhh: includes
Whisperers.
In 2018, A Quiet Place arrived with surprise on its side. Arguably, Hereditary generated more pre-release noise that year. Few viewers suspected that Dunder Mifflin’s Jim had a kick-ass alien thriller in him, let alone one with such a strong, silent(-ish) conceptual hook. And who thought John Krasinski would dare deliver that pulverising prologue, with its “Oh my god, you killed Beau” gut-puncher?
With expectations heightened by a Covid-enforced delay, the sequel lands with its work cut out for itself. Yet against the odds, A Quiet Place Part II manages to expand its predecessor’s world, realign its POV and develop its themes in controlled, satisfying ways, largely without losing its forerunner’s lean pitch and capacity to jolt. Tight (97 minutes) and often cruelly tense, it cuts as close to the original’s equal as might be expected, one or two minor stumbles aside.