The horror prequel «A Quiet Place: Day One» stars Lupita Nyong’o, Joseph Quinn and Djimon Hounsou.
It’s been six years since John Krasinski’s sci-fi monster movie “A Quiet Place” debuted. If you want a refresher course, it was about a post-apocalyptic future where aliens landed on Earth and killed everyone who spoke above the slightest whisper. It’s a pretty scary movie until you realize these villains are basically evil space librarians, so when they’re not on camera they’re probably just doing a lot of filing.
The evil space librarians returned in “A Quiet Place: Part 2,” which mostly takes place after the original but also finally reveals what happened on day one of the alien invasion. So that makes the title of the new, third film “A Quiet Place: Day One” a lot less intriguing.
Krasinski takes a step back this time, bestowing the writing and directing duties on Michael Sarnoski (Krasinski still keeps a co-story credit). Sarnoski’s feature film debut “Pig” starred Nicolas Cage in one of the best roles of his career, as a man searching for his stolen truffle pig. There’s no truffle pig in “A Quiet Place: Day One” but there is a cat who leads people to plot points, locates stray characters and miraculously doesn’t meow once the entire film, even when space librarians are attacking or he gets dunked in cold water.
The cat, Frodo, is clearly the star of this film but Lupita Nyong’o has a better agent, so she gets all the big dramatic scenes.
