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A Quiet Place

Man… That was good. Extremely well made. The use of sound was incredible. It had to be given the premise, but I wasn’t sure how well they would pull it off. They pulked it off very well. They made you fear the noise just as the characters did. And, incredibly, without the use if much dialogue, even less actually vocalized, they were able to establish relationships between characters, make us care for them and drive the plot forward meaningfully. They used the lack of sound as powerfully as the sound itself. And I am impressed with the actors for giving such powerful performances without their voices.

It was a good one from just a watching standpoint too. It kept you on the esgr of your seat. The way it opened really grabbed you and set the tone for the whole movie. The plot moved well, nothing out of place that I noticed. Every gun on the shelf in the first act was used to shoot someone in the third as they say. Something about the end was less suspenseful to me, though I can’t explain why. It may have been as simple as I was getting antsy and was ready to leave, not something with the movie itself. But overall, I think it was a well-paced, well-crafted story. Definitely worth the watch.