One of the most shocking things about A Quiet Place: Day One is Michael Bay is one of the producers! It boggles the mind that the monarch of Bay-hem is behind this film, where silence is the only way to stay alive. The third entry into the A Quiet Place film series, following A Quiet Place (2018) and A Quiet Place Part II (2020), both directed by John Krasinski, A Quiet Place: Day One follows a terminally ill poet, Sam (Lupita Nyong’o) and a British law student, Eric (Joseph Quinn) as they trek from Manhattan to Harlem in search of a pizza. Yes, it seems a bizarre thing to do, especially when the blind aliens with an acute sense of hearing are laying New York and the world (which is the same thing in Hollywood) waste.
I have not made up my mind whether watching the film on Screen X added to or distracted from the movie experience. If the screens on the sides were curved around the sight line instead of being at right angles, it would have made a difference. Anyway, after a point, you ignore the expansion of the screen.
There, unfortunately, is not much apocalyptic destruction, as most of it happens off-screen. The aliens look like first cousins of the Xenomorphs (we cannot wait for August 16 and Alien: Romulus ), skittering about the place, breaking glass, and hurling themselves from great heights at the hapless survivors. The scene where Sam finds herself with other survivors of the alien apocalypse, including Henri (Djimon Hounsou reprises his role from A Quiet Place Part.
