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A Quiet Place: Day one review: Whisper it, but this is fantastic, writes BRIAN VINER
The need to keep quiet, the notion that silence is golden, resonates with us all. That's partly why the 2018 apocalyptic thriller A Quiet Place was such a triumph.
This is one of the finest films of the year so far: taut, touching, exquisitely crafted by writer-director Michael Sarnoski (taking over from the story's creator John Krasinski, who is among the producers), and superbly led by Lupita Nyong'o. This narrative clunkiness is a waste of fine actors such as Sam Worthington, who plays a soldier trying to reconcile his irreproachable moral rectitude with the hots for a gorgeous homesteader (Sienna Miller), widowed in a brutal Apache raid. Then there's Costner himself as the obligatory enigmatic drifter, lightning-quick on the draw of course, whose compassion for a much younger prostitute at one point leads her gratefully to straddle him just to help the poor old fellow nod off after a tiring day — a far more pleasurable sleep-aid than this interminable picture.
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