Directed by : John Krasinski

You said.. that you could not do enough. Now you can.


Spoilers ahead... 


After the death of her husband, Evelyn Abbott (Emily Blunt) along with her children Regan Abbott (Millicent Simmonds), Marcus Abbott (Noah Jupe) and a new-born, walks away to find a new place of shelter with possible more humans alive and also having the knowledge of how to kill the Aliens/Creatures. 

Love how they begin the movie with 'Day1', the clear reason is to give a little dialogue sequence involving humans talking at baseball game (because later on those dialogues either wont happen or will be whisperish tone), and main one is to introduce Emmett (Cillian Murphy) who is some sort of acquaintance relation with Abbotts. Also, the nice quick blink and miss reference of the space shuttle toy is there that is bound to make you little emotional. 

Cut to 'Day 474', as the first act is mostly about Evelyn reaching up to meet Emmett coincidentally. Unlike the 1st part, this movie has little too many sound to my liking, and some stupid character decisions too. For instance, why would Emmett place a trap so he can know if any human walks by his place, when he clearly knows the sound would result in the Aliens/Creatures arriving only to put his own life in danger too. Then, there's Marcus who instead of staying underground and be safe rather decides to roam around to see what the place has (why are teens always super curious in horror movies/settings?), when a) he is badly injured in his foot, and b) there's death lurking outside. I didn't like the fact that they make him suffer that injury, which is a clear dejavu of what Evelyn goes through with the nail in 1st movie. Also, best thing about horror is when you can't see that thing which scares you, 1st part showed very less of the aliens, but here its little overdose. 

Yet, the final act makes for a engaging watch when we have 3 parallel scenes running and knowing they all will encounter the danger anytime. The island and song angle was good too, though another stupid thing happens, why would they make the mistake of not checking the boat properly for the alien? A thought comes to my mind though, if you are in a death kind zone where you can die any moment, does that mean your mind doesn't function properly and you end up making silliest of mistakes ? That would be only way to defend some of the things in this movie.

It was Emily Blunt who was the star of the 1st Part, and its Millicent Simmonds who steals the show here, though she was very much wonderful in the 1st part too. Cillian Murphy is a great addition, and I like how they get the part of 'I don't trust you' done with very quickly, and also I feared he may be playing a negative character which he isn't, so that was a nice pleasant surprise. 

The Sound mixing again is applaudable, would had preferred more silence ofcourse. The jump-scares are few but superbly used, you won't be able to see them coming. 

I agree this film is nowhere close to how good the 1st part was, still it works enough for me with an ending that suggests the fight against the aliens might still be on in next movie.

My Rating : 6.5/10