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New Release Birb- A Quiet Place

A Quiet Place
Starring: Emily Blunt and John Krasinski
Co-Written and Directed by John Krasinski
US Release Date: April 6th, 2018
My First Viewing: April 2nd, 2018

 John Krasinski and Emily Blunt try to protect their family from an unknown entity in A Quiet Place, a title that not only perfectly describes the film, but also your theater-going experience while watching it as well. 

 Taking place in the not-too-distant future in Little Falls, New York, an alien race only known as the Dark Angels live in hiding. If you make a sound, they find you and kill you. Evelyn and Lee Abbott (Blunt and Krasinski) live on a farm with their two children Regan and Marcus (Millicent Simmonds and Noah Jupe), to do whatever they can to stay alive. When one night they stoke the ire of the Angels by accident, it's a race against time to use what they can to defeat the Angels. 

 Being a married couple with young children in real life, you can tell the both Krasinski and Blunt bring a sense of reality into a sci-fi horror movie. It's an experience that you need to see in a group setting, as the atmosphere helps with creating the overall tension and suspense of this film. With a short 90-minute run time, it doesn't overstay it's welcome and moves by like a flash. 

 This is one of my favorite films so far of 2018. My only quibble, and it's a small one, is I wish that the Angels were treated with more of a tell but don't show mentality. In films like Cloverfield and Jaws, much of the suspense is made in not seeing the monsters, or seeing them until the very end. While the first third or so of the movie it is that way, I could have done without the full shots of them with a close up of their super-hearing abilities. However, this is something that did not detour my overall experience. 

 Taking the best parts of Predator, Tremors, and Signs, A Quiet Place puts Krasinski on the map as a director and story-teller much, in the same way, Get Out and Lady Bird did for Jordan Peele and Greta Gerwig last year. I look forward to seeing what he does next, and would highly recommend this to anyone. 

 A Quiet Place is rated PG-13 for terror and violent images. What are your thoughts? Follow me on twitter or facebook and leave your comments. If you like this post, check out my previous posts and pledge to my Patreon. 

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