A Quiet Place Part II 4K 2020 Ultra HD 2160p

In the center of the plot will again be a family that survived all the horrors of an alien invasion in the first part. This time, viewers will discover more information about the origin of dangerous aliens that react to sound. Also, viewers will meet other survivors after the seizure of the planet.

A Quiet Place Part II 4K Review
With one bare foot already on the screen, the sequel to the blockbuster "A Quiet Place" by John Krasinski literally stood still (evil irony) in the airless space of the pandemic for almost a year. And now, when life seems to be getting better, the picture still takes a decisive step towards storming cinemas. In this one can see, in general, not a very complex rhyme: both we and the Abbott family experienced the first traumatic encounter with a new reality and are getting used to living by different rules. Both we and they succeed with varying degrees of success (but still succeed!).

Let us recall in a nutshell how it all ended (although, to be honest, you can go to the cinema not only without refreshing your memory, but even without watching the original film at all - they will explain everything to you). Lee (actually Krasinski himself) heroically breaks the vacuum of silence with a desperate cry, thereby saving his children Regan and Marcus (Millie Simmonds and Noah Joop), which are too naughty for the post-apocalypse, and Evelyn (the director's wife Emily Blunt) gives birth in the bathroom (no less heroically, however ). The second part meets the Abbott's exactly where the first left them: they leave their settled penates and go in search of either other people, or more reliable shelter. Walking, however, is no longer so scary: the vibrations (waves, noises) of Regan's hearing aid disorient the aliens and allow, taking advantage of the vulnerability, to finish off the creatures. On the way of a sad tour, they meet a hermit in a bunker: rumpled, bearded, very sad, but still terribly charming Emmett (Cillian Murphy), who is not at all happy with them.

Before the start of the Abbott odyssey across the wasteland of the former United States, Krasinski rewinds time for a colorful sideshow to answer an optional but logical question: how did it all start? (And at the same time introduce Murphy's character into the plot.) And, frankly, these 10-15 minutes are really one of the most spectacular, tense and visually perfect spectacles of the era of covid rental (also filmed by cameraman Polly Morgan on 35 mm film). Affectionate suburbia, baseball, oranges and the inspiring hum of parents-fans - the idealistic world collapses in one minute, and Krasinski leads the viewer by the hand through the alleys, back rooms of supermarkets and hides under the seats of cars.

Not only in a large-scale flashback, but throughout the entire route along the plot, the sequel does not lose its genre form: on the one hand, Krasinski repeats the maneuvering that he did well in the original - a screamer here, a screamer there, an unnerving chirping of eared monsters, parallel editing and ringing silence as Regan pulls out her hearing aid. On the other hand, he was not afraid to deprive himself of the main thing: the bridgehead on which (as it seemed) the entire architecture of the universe was based - the concept. If the first part is famous for making people stop chewing popcorn in the hall, then the second almost does not try to switch to a whisper. Everyone is screaming, running, talking and arguing with each other, the child is crying, someone drops something - life is everywhere as it is. If the general turmoil and rhythm does not spoil the picture at all, then the main trouble of the continuation lies in the intimate conversations (it is difficult to say, the trouble of the scriptwriters or the authors of the dubbing). The dialogues of the survivors in the world afterwards sound deliberately pathetic, they shamelessly pour out truisms and sluggish manipulations - in other words, everyone suffers aloud with all their might with a touch of doomed romanticism.

In “Quiet Place”, the forced stifled silence became synonymous with grief and the experience of loss (the third child of the Abbots died by an absurd accident or oversight), while the new circle of the wheel of Samsara's loss of the now head of the family triggers the mechanism of destruction of this very cell of society. The already too self-willed children completely ceased to obey their mother, who completely faded into the background of the plot. Regan desperately tries to continue her father's business and take on the rescue mission, when Marcus prefers to sit and not stick out so as not to be torn to pieces. The conflict is quite obvious, but quite offensive for the young artist Noah Jupa - after "Sweet Boy" I would like his potential to be converted into skill, but the script leaves little room for exercise in beauty. The story that promotes family values ​​in the traditional reading now turns into a coming-of-age trope, where Regan becomes the main warrior of the resistance.

But for now, this is a kind of preparatory operation: the second part has become a bridge at the end of the trilogy. And I sincerely want to wait for the completion of this, although, most likely, it will not happen soon: Krasinski has not yet started work on the triquel, waiting for the results of the rental. Despite the naive straightforwardness and excessive speaking aloud, the universe of "Quiet Place" copes with the test of the second film without advances, acting on the principle of "Aliens". From a chamber and intense horror dystopia is moving to an action game, shifting the optics from parents to children and mixing the genre's palette: now you need to be afraid not only of monsters, but also of other people. Krasinski is true to his grammar of horror and does not deny himself the director's pleasure to leave a couple of references or details for those who watched the picture carefully. All together is one of the strongest reasons (sorry Christopher Nolan) to get to the cinema this summer.

Info Blu-ray
Video
Codec: HEVC / H.265
Resolution: Native 4K (2160p)
HDR: Dolby Vision, HDR10
Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1

Audio
English: Dolby TrueHD 7.1 (48kHz, 24-bit)
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 (48kHz, 24-bit)
English: Dolby Digital 5.1

Subtitles
English SDH, Malay, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Hungarian, Mandarin (Simplified), Mandarin (Traditional), Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Finnish, Swedish, Thai, Japanese.