Rated PG-13

A QUIET PLACE: DAY ONE follows a terminally ill woman who gets stuck in the city when the aliens first attack. She tries to survive and find a way to escape the violence.

While I appreciate the change in location, and the cast is quite strong, led by the vibrant Lupita Nyong’o, this installment doesn’t really bring anything new to the table.

Rather than enriching the ongoing backstory, it again follows new victims as they process their grief and trauma. And that is quickly becoming one of the most overused devices in horror movies today.

The snapshot nature of the films’ installments works to a degree, but I can’t help but feel they are just retreading the same path, almost as if no one thought beyond the initial success of the first film.

Even with good acting with effective scares, A QUIET PLACE: DAY ONE still manages to press its own mute button.

A QUIET PLACE: DAY ONE gets two and a half jump scares out of five. I’m Kevin Carr, and that’s the way I see it.

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