Avis des critiques

Neatly shot by talented director of photography Polly Morgan, it’s the perfect summer popcorn movie, not in the sense that you need to check your brain at the door, but this is a movie about sensation, not inner contemplation, and it’s a bracing, entertaining example of the form.

For the most part, however, A Quiet Place Part II deviates very little from the formula that made the first film so successful: little exposition (or even dialogue), a careful refocusing of the viewer’s attention towards sound design, lots of viscerally intense sequences of deadly cat-and-mouse, and a Spielbergian preoccupation with the dynamics of family. While it is certainly thrilling for its duration, what you see – or hear – is what you get.

Krasinski proves his intelligence and his non-subversive priorities when it comes to being a genre director. He also asserts his talent at orchestrating tense life-or-death scenes with an exciting sense of when to go slow and when to floor it... Even if this sequel remains firmly in the shadows of the original, I wanted part three as soon as it was over.

The first film was an extraordinary moviegoing experience... but once it was over, it was hard not to start going over the lapses of logic in the screenplay. This time, the goals and stakes are more direct, and the overall lean storytelling works in the film’s favor, with each step from every character becoming an occasion for viewers to hold their breath in suspense.

It’s a lean-and-mean thriller with a lot of heart, even though it’s a bit thin... In the end, it plays its story a bit too safe: It does enough to set up another potentially engaging film, if Krasinski has another story to tell, but not enough to convince viewers that they’ll like it.

With "A Quiet Place Part II," John Krasinski confirms that the taut brilliance of the first "A Quiet Place" was no fluke... Beyond the many jump scares involving aliens and the terrifically terrified-out-of-their-wits performances, what makes "A Quiet Place Part II" special is the sheer joy we get from feeling like we’re in the hands of a confident filmmaker.

Krasinski treats this sequel like a grand and long-anticipated installment in a treasured saga, rather than an agile little follow-up to a surprise blockbuster. The film’s self-seriousness bogs down what should be a mad and skittering thing, jangling us with all its agonizing silence. We should be having more fun as we watch through our fingers.

[The first] "A Quiet Place" was uneven in spots, but still felt like a startling discovery, which means its sequel has a lot to live up to. And, for the most part, it does... Krasinski returns to this sequel as director and sole writer (he co-wrote the first film), and he has a good sense of how to build tension in what we’re seeing and what we’re hearing.

Though in many respects an exemplary piece of filmmaking, “Part II” remains hobbled by a script that resolves two separate crises while leaving the movie itself in limbo. At least until Part III.

"A Quiet Place Part II" is a movie that peaks early, arms itself with a central mission and still leaves room for more of what, in success, will likely become the Quiet Place Cinematic Universe... [It] manages to be perfectly fine, and unsurprisingly, a more generic affair -- one that offers less for audiences to cheer, quietly or otherwise, beyond the renewed sensation of being frightened in the dark.

The movie is intelligently conceived, well-acted and nicely crafted. But like any sequel, it’s fixated on upping the ante, and thus pitched at a much higher stress level. It never lets up, which might be great fun for some viewers, though its doggedness also makes it wearying.

The problem isn’t that Krasinski is insensitive so much as that he’s unperceptive. He doesn’t see the world that he’s creating, only the story that he’s telling—or, worse, the script that he’s illustrating... “A Quiet Place Part II” is filled with striking, clever details; it displays no sense whatsoever of the big picture. That failure is the difference between directing and just making a movie.