That was day one, and we then shoot forward in time to day 474 when Evelyn, still reeling from Lee’s death, accepts the fact that she, Marcus, her daughter Regan (Millicent Simmonds) and baby are no longer safe in their ruined home, and must find a new hiding place.įollowing a fire beacon on a distant hill, they reach an abandoned steel foundry, which they’re cautiously investigating when Marcus steps on a bear trap which rips his leg to shreds.Ī man has been watching them through a telescopic lens, and now reveals himself to be Emmett (Cillian Murphy), a once jovial family friend who’s now a haunted, ravaged soul. Lee had turned the rural family home into a high-tech bunker, but the arrival of a newborn baby meant that detection was inevitable - babies cry - and he gave his life to save his family.Ĭleverly, this sequel initially takes us back beyond the events of the first film to give us a flavour of the actual invasion. great loping creatures with heads that open up like artichokes, they hunt by sound and, in the blink of an eye, have wiped out a fair portion of humanity. These extraterrestrials bear absolutely no relation to E.T. In that fiendishly effective little film, Krasinski and Emily Blunt played Lee and Evelyn Abbott, a couple with three children and another on the way who’ve managed to survive a devastating alien invasion. Will it tempt Covid-wary punters back in? It ought to because it’s almost as good as the 2018 original, which is saying something.
J ohn Krasinski’s horror sequel was all set to be released in this jurisdiction in March 2020: the posters were on the buses and everything! Then the first lockdown struck.Īpart from a brief, fitful opening last summer, cinemas have been closed ever since, so it is perhaps fitting that A Quiet Place: Part II is the first big movie of the reopening.