A Quiet Place Review: 9 Ups & 1 Down

7. It's Gut-Wrenchingly Suspenseful

This is one hell of a suspenseful thrill-ride of a movie, that's for sure. From its opening scene to its last, Krasinski does a marvellous job throwing his characters into enormous peril and milking it for every drop of stomach-knotting tension it's worth.

Numerous elements are set up early on and pay off splendidly later, merely hanging in there in the interim as the viewer uneasily waits for them to resurface. These moments don't so much feel predictable as they are an inevitability of the scenario, and from them Krasinski generates what are sure to be some of the year's most sweaty-palmed movie moments.

There are numerous sequences sure to leave audiences incredibly uneasy, and that it's all done with barely any jump scares or teen-baiting horror tropes is, honestly, miraculous. It might be the sort of movie that has tweens complain, "It's not scary!", but the pervasive atmosphere of terror is really quite remarkable.