The first trailer for the much-anticipated sequel to A Quiet Place has arrived, and it introduces quite a bit of backstory as well as a cast of new survivors.
The first film began well after the supersonic, misophonic monsters decimated the Earth, leaving audiences to make up their own stories for how the disaster went down. In the trailer for A Quiet Place Part II, however, we get a glimpse of how the Abbott family handled the initial wave of terror as the sound-sensitive critters take over their small town (and the rest of the world). Fast-forward to more than a year later, when our much-beleaguered heroes depart the outpost of the first movie and venture out into the unknown. Unfortunately, the world is rife with booby traps, and when matriarch Evelyn (Emily Blunt) stumbles into a trip-wire, the family meets a couple of post-apocalyptic denizens (Cillian Murphy and Djimon Hounsou) with a rather more nihilistic approach to survival.
Much anticipated? Really?
My reaction exactly. I thought the ending to the first film was the perfect button to the story, and then I immediately thought, “They’ll make a sequel.” How predictable, how very dull.
I like that there will be a sequel.
I found it very touching when the family made a fire and you could see other fires in the distance, so you knew there were other people out there, other tiny groups cut off from each other but trying to reach out. I expected them to contact some of these people later in the film. I was disappointed when it didn’t happen. If it happens in the sequel, I’m all for it.
@3 – i loved that sense of community too. but when the kids go to light the signal fire later, none of the surrounding farms responded. did this mean the neighbors were dead, or that they’d seen the red lights on the farm and were trying to avoid being noticed as well? hopefully that will be clarified.
I fail to see why all the groups would have died at once.
But more importantly, I thought the first movie was well-acted and well-written, right up until the end, which was both lazy and ridiculous. Are we really to believe that, facing monsters that hunted by sound, no one – NO ONE – tried anything like the solution? Everyone I know who saw the film hated the ending. And what scope is there for a sequel when their method can be so easily used to exterminate the monsters completely? It’s like the aliens in Signs being melted by water.