A Quiet Place Part II-- My take on the movie with spoilers!

 

PLOT SUMMARY: The Abbotts are still under threat from creatures that hunt by sound. As they venture out in pursuit of civilization, they are faced with a new enemy. 

The world has been attacked by aliens. No, they're not the stocky green types who have laser guns and will demand that they be taken to the leader.

These aliens are blind, ferocious kinds with enhanced hearing. They don't want diplomatic relations with the world leaders but simply want to kill everything that makes even a tiny bit of noise.

Frightening, isn't it?

Well, now let's analyze this for a bit.

The people are under attack from these aliens and have learned that these creatures kill anything that makes a sound.

Sure, it takes some time for people to get accustomed to this new way of living. But what happens to the government and the military? Don't they ever step in to assist people?

How about offering people shelters in bunkers or arranging their transport to another place? If not by road or air, how about boats and ships?

And if they know for sure that the aliens are attracted to sound, how about creating traps for them.

They could set up loud frequency sounds in the woods, away from cities and towns, and lure the aliens to it before destroying them with bombs and mines.

Did the aliens kill everyone who was in authority, first?

And then here's another thing: so normal business hasn't resumed and the shops are left with their inventory intact. All the shopkeepers have died apparently. There's already this bit of lawlessness going on that even the main characters can be accused of. Yet, there is a group of robbers who want to steal from others. Are they too lazy to go to the store themselves and pick out what they want? 

They could have easily cleaned out all the stores and then tried to sell them at a high price. Of course, people wouldn't be able to afford them with money but they could set up an exchange system. There must be something someone has that they don't. If the story demanded there be criminals, then let them be proper criminals.

In any other fairytale type story, all the people would have band together to find a way to trap and kill the aliens. But this movie tries to be realistic in the sense that at the end of the day, it's every man for himself.

A QUIET PLACE PART II Movie Plot

The movie begins with a flashback to the very first day all hell broke loose.

It's a nice sunny day, the kids are playing baseball. The Abbott family have a friend called Emmett who is also on the stands cheering for his son.

There is a large fireball in the sky, Marcus Abbott misses his shot, and luckily everyone was too distracted to see he was out.

People begin to flee. Lee runs with his daughter Regan who is dead; Evelyn takes charge of her young son and Marcus.

The aliens drop from the sky and bash at anything that makes noise. Did they come from a very quiet planet? Considering they make screeching noises, now did the aliens communicate with each other? If they missed the peace of the world they came from, why not go back? Unless they could hear all the noises from Earth all the way on their planet and wanted to silence everyone once and for all.

Evelyn gets in her car and obviously gets stuck in traffic. Lee takes Regan to hide at a bar where people are hiding and praying under the tables but still being noisy enough for the aliens to smash the windows and attack everyone.

Evelyn's car is attacked too and she has to abandon it and hide with her sons. The family is reunited when Lee and Rehab come running out to join them.

The aliens elicit a piercing squeal that brings the viewers to the present.

Lee is dead having sacrificed himself for his kids in the first part. Evelyn just had a baby. Their house has been burned down. It's time to make a move.

Evelyn knows her newborn is bound to make a noise so arrangements have been made to procure a box and oxygen tanks so that the baby can be placed inside it should the family run into trouble.

The family still moves around barefoot because that doesn't make as much noise as ALL shoes.

As they search for a new home, they run into a bit of trouble when Marcus gets his foot caught in a trap and screams his head off.

From the previous instalment, Regan has found that her cochlear implant emits a high frequency that greatly disturbs the aliens. So using an amplifier, she places her implant, that Lee has built for her, next to amplifier that lets out a sound annoying enough for the alien to forget it was supposed to kill the family. Its head blooms like a flower to expose its organs and Evelyn, who has become an expert with the shotgun, takes a shot.

While all this is going on, someone is keeping an eye on the family with a scope.

Afraid that the sound of the gunshot would alert more aliens, Evelyn tells her kids to move it and Marcus barely manages to limp inside a building when he is pulled to the side. Evelyn is about to react when a hand is placed on her mouth and a stranger gestures to an alien climbing the wall like a lizard.

The family is taken to a foundry where the man takes them to a bunker.

The stranger reveals himself to be Emmett who was living in solitude and not exactly thrilled at having company. Evelyn guilts him into taking care of her and her kids and that is that.

Marcus is given a little first aid, but clearly, the family needs to ransack a pharmacy soon.

Regan comes up with a dangerous plan to go venturing out to find out if her hunch about the song playing on the radio is right. She thinks the government might be trying to send a clue to the survivors that there is a haven for them in the islands nearby. Maybe the aliens don't react violently to songs? Is that it? Is that why an actual message was not sent to the survivors.

In that case, what they say is true;  music soothes the savage soul.

They should have considered playing soft lullabies too and see if the aliens would go off to sleep.

Marcus tells Regan it is a bad idea but Regan thinks she knows better and leaves a note for him on the radio and goes off alone.

She finds a train and guesses no one has removed all the things from there, especially the first aid kit.

Meanwhile, Evelyn manipulates Emmett into rescuing her daughter and it is clear he is having second thoughts about giving shelter to the family.

On the other side, Regan has managed to remove the first aid kit, has a skeleton of the ticket collector fall on her, and is immediately confronted by an alien.

Regan tries the cochlear implant trick but isn't a good shot like Evelyn and misses her target. The alien gets over the sound and comes to attack her only to be shot in the head by Emmett.

Now it is Regan's turn to manipulate Emmett into taking her to find the island for the survivors.

Emmett chooses to go on this adventure rather than return to the foundry where Evelyn and the baby, and the boy with an injury is.

The duo comes to the marina where there's a group of people who immediately want to rob them of basic supplies.

Emmett signals Regan to take a dive and manages to create a distraction by alerting an alien to come and attack the robbers.

Emmett quickly realizes that the aliens cannot swim when he jumps into the water.

Regan comes on a boat and saves him and they both reach the island where the survivors are living their happy, noisy lives.

But they also brought along an alien with them.

Meanwhile, realizing no one is coming to give them supplies, Evelyn decides to go out on her own leaving her son in charge of the baby.

Marcus, bored of his babysitting duties, ventures out to snoop and finds a corpse, possibly Emmett's wife, behind a curtain. He obviously gets scared and makes a lot of noise forgetting that the aliens are always lurking by to catch even a minute sound.

He rushes back to the bunker and forgets the towel trick to stop the door from closing completely. He's now stuck in the bunker and has to share the baby's oxygen. Eventually, he faints due to a lack of air.

A QUIET PLACE PART II Ending Explained with Spoilers!

Meanwhile, Evelyn has managed to alert aliens too and manages to reach the foundry with an oxygen tank. She gets into the bunker and awakens Marcus.

At the island, the alien attacks everything it hears. The colony leader lets Emmett and Regan get into his car and drive to the studio where the radio keeps playing the song over and over.

They blare the horn to lure the alien away from the others.

As soon as they get into the garage of the studio, they are careful not to close the shutter down completely so that the alien can drag away the colony leader to his death.

Emmett makes a half-hearted grab for him but is mindful that it is still the "every man for himself" era and rushes inside the studio.

While Regan is looking around at the gadgets and gizmos to figure out how to do her cochlear implant trick, Emmett has had enough of being played around with the Abbotts and prefers being mauled by the alien. He locks the door to "protect" Regan and let's the alien do his thing.

But Regan is a genius who has figured out how to amplify the high-frequency sounds of her implant.

The alien goes crazy and Regan comes out and finds a pole to stab the alien with.

This scene is interspersed with scenes from the foundry where Marcus hears the sounds from the radio and gets out to use it on the alien who is lurking outside. He then uses a gun to shoot the alien.

Both kids are shown separately with determined looks on their faces that is supposed to signify the moment innocence is lost and alien murderers are born.

Evelyn looks on, speechless.

Scare scale: 3/5