The post-apocalyptic horror epitomized good filmmaking, baking visual storytelling into its conceptual DNA.

A sequel was greenlit posthaste, with Krasinski writing and directing.

Like its predecessor, it demands an immersive sensory experience.

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In delivering on the elements that madeQuiet Placegreat, lazy writing crept into the screenplay.

For example, it’s shown that they’re aliens, arriving on Earth by way of a meteor.

Conceptually, this makes sense; their thin, lean, and dense design would hardly suggest buoyancy.

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Murphy’s performance contributes toKrasinski’s overall positive addition of Emmett toPart II.

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The sequel forces this issue in ways that feel inorganic.

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As seriously as the sequel plays the injury, he’s up and moving hours after sustaining it.

Bear traps are known to shatter bone but the wound seems superficial compared with how he reacts to it.

These factors make its inclusion something of a plot hole.

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For someone wizened by 400 days in the after-times, he behaves recklessly.

Thinking more about the dock folk, however, raises some issues.

How does a community with such advanced social disintegration maintain its sizable numbers?

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Sure there are lingering questions: what happens when the cochlear machine’s batteries run out?

What happens when the oxygen for the baby runs out?

How will the Abbott family reunite?

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