Krasinski leaves the door open for a third, fourth, perhaps even countless films to follow. The success of A Quiet Place Part II completely hinges on whether you liked the first one – same logic (or lack thereof, when considering how the monsters function), same characters, same jump-scares, same tiny, infrequent bursts of relief and pathos. If nothing else, the whole thing works as a tremendous, very handsome acting showcase – and with the oppressive, relentless monsters targeting our heroes, it's an unbelievably stressful one, too.
The biggest asset of this second chapter is Simmonds – the young actress telegraphs a striking combination of determination and fear like nobody else, carrying a movie at the ripe age of 18 alongside heavyweights such as Murphy and Blunt. It's an opener that works well because, just like in the first movie, Krasinski hinges everything on the marrow-deep fear conveyed on the faces of his actors, and the terrifying sound design that zones in and out of frequency – just as it would for Regan, who is deaf. At one of Marcus’ baseball games, the Abbotts, like the rest of the world, watch in horror at the dystopian sight of these lethal monsters falling from the sky. The answer is to a flashback, of course, as we return to the very start to see how this nightmare apocalypse began. And so we begin the second film with a question mark: no Lee, yet still very many monsters… where do we go from here? After all, his Lee Abbott died so that his wife, Evelyn (Krasinski’s real-life partner Emily Blunt) and children – Regan ( Millicent Simmonds), Marcus ( Noah Jupe), and their newborn baby – could survive. Writer-director John Krasinski once said that if he had known he'd get to make A Quiet Place Part II, he wouldn’t have killed off his character at the end of the first film.
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