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It also shifts the action from a pastoral American heartland to the hustle and bustle of New York City.
As in Jordan PeelesUs, the Oscar winners face becomes a grand canvas scrawled with multiple shades of fear.
These movies must be appealing to actors, who can get in touch with their inner Garbo or Falconetti.
And so few lines to learn!
On a whole, this prequel/spinoff wants for the tighter suspense of those earlier films.
But his set pieces arent all that memorable.
Perhaps the monsters themselves have lost their novelty.
How many times can we watch them tear ferociously into frame?
Its not so surprising that this filmmaker would be drawn to the moodiness ofA Quiet Placemore than the action.
ThoughDay Oneis being sold as an expansion of theQuiet Placeuniverse, it is in many ways merely a reiteration.
But if you repeat it enough, a bold new approach to multiplex thrills becomes just more noise.
