This is Paul Salfen with your KLAK Movie Minute. In theaters this weekend is A Quiet Place Day One, the reboot of the dystopian creature invasion flick that finds more people running and quietly hiding from these blind alien creatures that kill everyone they hear as they can’t see. The smart ones only move or speak while there’s other noice but everyone else seems to perish and the population shrinks and shrinks. The first two (especially the first one) had a dark, mysterious, and dangerous edge, but this one seemed slow, predictable and not very scary. On top of that, if this is supposed to be an origin story, we don’t learn anything about the creatures, why this happened or anything. Just a lot of Lupita Nyong’o and Joseph Quinn running and hiding. While Luipta’s character has an interesting backstory and she’s a great actress, too much relies on more of the same – just this time in New York City. It’s pretty grim and doesn’t offer a happy resolutions so it’s a strange summer film but it’s a familiar franchise and a way to beat the heat so it might connect but really would be all the same watching it at home even though it’s meant to be a big screen experience. That’s it for this week. Join me next week and every week for another Movie Minute right here on 97.5 KLAK, AMFM Magazine, and RECRD.
