What makes the horror aspect of the film feel organic (even if they’re awkwardly set up at times due to the writing) is how the tension before each scare is built. Jumpscares never feel cheap, they feel organic. The film does a great job of building tension. You’ll still have to deal with characters doing dumb decisions though.Įven though it isn’t that scary, A Quiet Place Part 2 delivered a pretty enjoyable viewing experience for me. I prefer the execution of how A Quiet Place (2018) developed its plot, but the sequel does a respectable job in expanding the lore and also giving a bit more context to the world outside of the family of survivors. Overall, A Quiet Place Part 2 has a different formula than the first A Quiet Place, which I feel is inferior but is still acceptable to me. Sure, they add depth and expand the lore to the franchise, but they could have been explored more organically. Things like other survivors, the shady past of one of the main characters, and other smaller subplots are not developed that well. There are also other issues that I can nitpick, but they’re mainly problems that don’t break my immersion as much. In A Quiet Place Part 2, the different perspectives are essentially different plots, so it feels like different movies instead of one. It’s not like in Avengers Endgame, where the story jumps between each of the heroes in different timelines-they all share the same goal, so the plot is being pushed forward. These 3 different perspectives are edited together to build tension, but they barely tie together narratively. We jump back and forth between the perspective of 3 different characters in 3 different locations, all doing their own thing unrelated to each other at all. This is very clear in the final act of the movie. Compared to the prequel, where everyone’s actions were for the sake of their OWN survival, here, characters make decisions that seem to undermine that. I feel like characters do the things they do because “plot demands it” or purposely create problems for themselves or each other.
Characters are motivated by one thing, but then do the opposite thing. Follow biggest offender is how characters make dumb decisions.