A Quiet Place

What seems to be a boosted Spielberg style family drama with a clear concept that sets the rules by inner tension in the first half (before the fireworks) is a silly survival low-budget movie with cheap spooky sequences constantly violating the rules, showing one logical lapse after another and following the scheme of genre clichés the second half (after the shower). Slowly built tension in Shyamalan style (from the times of the Signs) versus glitz and dull-acting characters pushed like puppets moving from one adrenaline-packed adventure to another. The first half is excellent, the second is solid. But they are incompatible and go against each other. This should have been either a quiet cat with soft paws or an insanely barking dog during the whole footage but it is something in between. As a result, the most impressive part is prologue, which would perfectly work as a self-sufficient short-movie; (30/04/2018)

Last of Us meets Walking Dead meets Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds. Despite the fact that Krasinski always veers from serious tones to slightly cheesy progressions and twists, this quiet elegy gripped me from the first to the last minute. That's how Shyamalan would have done it if he hadn't gone crazy. (24/04/2018)

Excellent work with atmosphere and sound, or in this case rather silence. It does not lack a few bold and juicy moments, but nothing original, just another variation of mysterious dystopian monster post-apocalyptic science fiction where something has gone fundamentally wrong and humanity doesn't know which way to go. Krasinski is certainly no ordinary routinist and has potential, but you can't win the Tour de France on a scooter. I believe his next film will be more ambitious instead of a horror one-off. (25/07/2018)

My comment will not contain anything new. Many others have already noticed that Krasinski devotes much more energy and attention to building tension in individual scenes and achieving immediate effects at the expense of elementary logic and believability of the world he presents. You will enjoy A Quiet Place the more you refrain from thinking about logical inconsistencies and immerse yourself in the story with your brain turned off. Reflecting on how creatures so easily vulnerable could have taken over the world means spoiling the experience. If humanity was so witless that it allowed itself to be massacred by these nobodies, then it simply deserved its decline and exit from the stage. If you refuse the approach of "it happened, don't question it," you will suffer just like me. And rightly so. Overall impression: 40%. (09/04/2019)

A great idea which sweetened the horror waters of the year 2018. A movie where there is little talking, because it’s set in a dystopian world with an extraterrestrial civilization that destroys everything that speaks aloud. There is a whole array of logical errors, but the simplicity and originality overshadow the contents. The suspense is literally spouting from the movie and the married couple Emily Blunt and John Karsinski are truly enjoying this family horror drama. Just like the viewer, after all. Only from a slightly different perspective. (11/10/2018)