A Quiet Place: Day One is a tale of love, compassion and endurance in the face of adversity

Film review: A Quiet Place: Day One (15)

Starring: Lupita Nyong'o and Jospeh Quinn

Directors: Michael Sarnoski Run time: One hour, 39 minutes

Firstly, I must say that you don’t need to have seen the two films from 2018 and 2020 to enjoy this prequel. I’ve not watched them… although I cannot wait to now.

Starring the superb Black Panther star Lupita Nyong’o, this alien disaster film is an ultimately heartbreaking tale of human love, compassion and endurance in the face of massive adversity.

Aliens have attacked, it’s seemingly the beginning of the end for the human race and New York is silent for once… any noise and the extra-terrestrial visitors will make you their lunch.

Everyone is trying to escape the Big Apple on boats as the attacking hordes can’t navigate water. But it’s different for Nyong’o’s Sam - the talented poet has terminal cancer and chooses to remain with her cat Frodo and stay in her own home one last time rather than the hospice where she was meant to see out her days.

While escaping the aliens she comes across terrified English law student Eric, played convincingly by Joseph Quinn, who many will know as Eddie from Stranger Things.

The couple quickly become close as Eric helps care for the ailing Sam and takes her on a trip down memory lane involving her favourite New York places.

It’s a little sentimental at times (the gorgeous cat features throughout!) and occasionally a little unrealistic, but within seconds of one satisfying ending, we are dealt a crushing and more likely outcome.

For a film with hardly any dialogue, it’s gripping from beginning to end and the 100 minutes fly by as Quinn and Nyong’o both turn in acting masterclasses.

By Jeremy Ransome

Rating: 8/10