A Quiet Place

          Over the weekend I saw John Krasinski's "A Quiet Place" which was an incredible movie.  Going into it I heard great things but was skeptical considering there was not really any speaking parts in the movie.  The movie was one of the most intense movies I ever saw in the theater.  Throughout the entire movie you were on the edge of your seat.  

          

          The movie takes place in The woods of New York and almost the entire human race has been taken out by these creatures who attack when you make noise.  The movie follows along a family with three small children.  In the very beginning the smallest child is playing with a toy airplane and when it starts making sounds he is killed by the death angel.  The movie fast forwards about a year later and they are expecting another child.  From that moment on I knew this movie was going to hold nothing back and was going to keep me on the edge of my seat till the very end. And that it did.

          Watching this movie at the theater was a different kind of experience than any other movie.  Since a majority of the movie did not have sound you could hear everything and in a weird way added that much more intensity to the film.  Another thing that jumped out to me was usually you know when an intense part of the movie is coming up because there would be some kind of music that plays along to the scene of the movie.  In this instance the entire movie was like that but since there was no music when a loud noise did come (or any noise for that matter) it really did a good job of making the audience jump. 

          A running theme in the movie was that the oldest daughter was deaf so the father kept trying to make his own hearing aids for her so she could eventually hear.  None of them have ever worked before and this upset the daughter.  The daughter also felt the youngest brother dying in the beginning of the movie was her fault so between these two issues she felt her father did not love her as much as the others which was not true.

          Overall this movie was fantastic.  It exceeded my expectations and I would recommend this movie to anyone who enjoys horror kinds of movies.  It is a true thriller that will keep your interest from start to finish.  The entire movie from the directing to the acting to the special effects were phenomenal.