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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\u201cA Quiet Place: Day One\u201d made a grave miscalculation with its advertising. Scenes were filmed with the intention of putting them in the trailers, but not the movie. This way, when people saw the movie, they wouldn\u2019t be able to properly anticipate the surprises and story progression. To that end, the advertising succeeded, I was indeed thrown off while watching the movie. But here\u2019s where they didn\u2019t succeed: the scenes shot just for the trailers were terrible, with clumsy dialogue and careless pacing. I was so mad at Hollywood for continuing this series without the creative vision of director John Krasinski, especially when the movie looked like garbage without his input. I only saw this movie out of obligation for the column, and I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if fans of the series stayed away entirely because of those awful trailers. But it turns out that not only is this movie better than the trailers, it\u2019s better than the two installments that Krasinski directed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDay One\u201d casts aside the familiar Abbott family in favor of new protagonist Sam (Lupita Nyong\u2019o). Sam is a cancer patient taking a trip from her hospice to Manhattan along with her nurse Reuben (Alex Wolff) and service cat Frodo. Sam only agrees to the trip on the condition that the group stop for pizza at her favorite place in Harlem. The sudden invasion of echolocating aliens means a delay in pizza. Honestly, Sam is only interested in self-preservation to the end that it means eventual pizza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sam shelters in place for a bit with Reuben, who has a great scene where he stares down an alien like he\u2019s staring down death itself. Also in the shelter is familiar character Henri (Djimon Hounsou) from \u201cPart II\u201d of the series, here forced to make an unthinkable decision. She moves on to helping some children in Central Park before finding a companion in anxious wreck Eric (Joseph Quinn). Can the two survive in alien-infested New York long enough to get a slice of pizza? If so, what happens after that?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDay One\u201d has the most suspense yet for a \u201cQuiet Place\u201d movie. It was scary enough that characters had to keep quiet to save their lives on a family farm or in small town. But in New York, the noises are as big as the pizzas. Speaking of food, I wonder if the characters\u2019 best bet for survival would be to let the aliens fill up on noisy people and then hope they\u2019re too stuffed to give chase. Maybe that\u2019s why the film\u2019s biggest flaw is that the main characters get away with making as much noise as they do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The film does an excellent job of wringing scares out of not only the slightest sounds, but loud-looking images. Even with everybody promising to be quiet, a crowd of people is going to make noise eventually, that\u2019s just how crowds are. So if the characters find themselves as part of a crowd, the clock is already ticking. And that\u2019s with a reasonable amount of effort being made. Some people just aren\u2019t cut out for quiet, and associating with those people in this environment could prove fatal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cA Quiet Place: Day One\u201d had me afraid to breathe loudly in the theater, a testament to the film\u2019s immersiveness. And yet, the suspenseful atmosphere is only the second-best thing about the movie. The real star here is, well, the star: Lupita Nyong\u2019o. This movie doesn\u2019t have returning players John Krasinski, Emily Blunt, or even recent Oscar-winner Cillian Murphy, and Nyong\u2019o makes up for all of them. One way or another, Sam doesn\u2019t have much time left on this Earth, but you\u2019ll want to be there for every moment. It took until nearly the exact halfway point of the year, but I think we have our first serious contender for an acting Oscar. Not bad for a movie whose advertising had me thinking it would be one of the worst films of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Grade: B<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cA Quiet Place: Day One\u201d is rated PG-13 for terror and violent content\/bloody images. Its running time is 100 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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