A Quiet Place: Day One (2024)

A Quiet Place: Day One is a prequel to the hit John Krasinski sci-fi horror.

This time Michael Sarnoski took over writing and directing the film. After his success in directing, little little-known movie, Pig, I imagine Paramount had faith in him to take a stab at the franchise. There was one issue with the water CG and the monsters really have been too crisp and detailed in low light but other than that his writing was kinda of mediocre.

Lupita Nyong'o plays the main character who has some sort of disease. I'm not sure if it was actually declared to be cancer but it was something like that. She plays a jerk through most of the film and her character arc is being nice to this scary cat played by Joseph Quinn. She's expressive even if her character is written to be unlikeable in the beginning.

Speaking of Joseph Quinn he plays a British lawyer who is the most timid lawyer there is. I mean I guess it makes sense that he's British as an American lawyer would have too many stereotypes to overcome but American audiences would believe that a Brit would be a coward in times of stress. He plays it pretty well.

The film has a few jump scares and tries to do a moment of terror but it doesn't pay since the CG was off. Result: B-

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