Day One is not the movie it promises to be

A quiet place: Day one Promised to be an action-packed prequel set on the first day of the alien invasion, but it’s not action-packed and it’s not set on one day. After the opening sequence of A Quiet Place Part II Giving the audience a glimpse into the chaos of the day the aliens landed, A Quiet Place: Day One Set out to stretch the apocalyptic thrills into a full feature-length movie. But writer-director Michael Sarnoski ended up delivering a much slower and tamer film than the tantalizing logline promised.

Sarnoski was more interested in telling a soulful love story in a unique setting than showing the carnage of sentient aliens ravaging the streets of New York City. There are some exciting sets in A Quiet Place: Day OneBut they are fleeting, and few and far between – and most of them were dissolved in the trailers. for the most part, A Quiet Place: Day One is a character study. It’s more concerned with getting Lupita Nyong’o’s Sam to her favorite pizza place than showing the immediate aftermath of the alien invasion.

A Quiet Place: The first day isn’t just the first day of the alien invasion

It’s the first four days, and it skips the first day quickly

The title of A Quiet Place: Day One suggests that it takes place entirely on the first day of the alien attack. But this is not the case; It actually covers the first four days. And It is only really the first act (or possibly even less) of the movie that is actually set on the first day of the invasion. Every time Sam and Joseph Quinn’s Eric hangs out in an abandoned apartment or a crumbling church to get some rest, the movie grinds to a halt and all the tension is flattened.

This was probably Sarnoski’s intention – he wanted to make a character-focused romance, not a big Hollywood action movie – but an entry in a post-apocalyptic horror franchise still had to deliver the goods for fans of the genre. And A Quiet Place: Day One Doesn’t really deliver the goods. If Sam and Eric can survive for four days without really trying, it’s not too hard to survive In this alien-infested world. The first movie made it look harder to survive on day 89 than the prequel makes it look to survive on day 2.

A Quiet Place: Day One underdelivers on its core concept

It is still about people adjusting to life after the alien attack

The main concept of A Quiet Place: Day OneWhat separated it from the previous two films was to show the immediate successor of the aliens arriving. In the first two films, Earthlings have settled in the new world order and the human population has already been depicted. A Quiet Place: Day One Promised to show the unbridled chaos of the apocalypse And humanity’s struggle to wrap its head around a complete overnight change to the way the world works. But it did not really give the intriguing premise.

in A quiet place: Day oneThe story is still about people adjusting to life after the alien attack. Despite what his premise promised, The aliens attack in A Quiet Place: Day One It doesn’t feel very soonSo it’s time for civilians and the military to learn what to do and what not to do. Based on the commitment, A Quiet Place: Day One Should have thrown his letters in the deep end. But Sam and everyone else have a lot of opportunities to find out the weaknesses of the aliens and how to use them.

A Quiet Place: One Day could have told its whole story in one day

It could have all been truncated down to a single terrifying, action-packed day

The history of A Quiet Place: Day One Can be condensed into a single day. Sarnoski could have hit all the same beats without taking all the breaths that slowed the movie down. Sam keeps stopping for rest, but that’s only necessary if she’s planning for long-term survival, which she’s not. It may not seem entirely believable that Eric would fall for Sam in such a short time, but a four-day love story is just as implausible as a one-day love story, and it is easy to explain that the traumatic event of the alien Invasion bound them faster than usual.

There are many exciting moments in A Quiet Place: Day One. What let the movie down was all the slow, sad moments in between. By shortening the four-day timeline to a single day, Sarnoski could have created more of a sense of urgency. (And actually lived up to the promise of the title). A Quiet Place: Day One It’s not a bad movie, but it’s certainly not the apocalyptic action thriller it promises to be.