I’ve never cared all that much about the Quiet Place franchise, but positive reviews, the promise of seeing Lupita Nyong’o headline a film for the first time since 2019’s excellent Jordan Peele-directed Us, the fresh knowledge that 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:a Quiet Place game is on the way, and the entreaties of my partner sent me to the cinema to catch A Quiet Place: Day One. It was fine – good, even, as far as Quiet Place films go, but nothing special in the 𒀰context of the wider horror genre.

A Quiet Place: Day One follows terminally iꦺll poet Sam (Nyong’o) through the first days of the alien invasion. We see how the people of New York City learned to survive, how they were evacuated out of the alien-infested city, and how Sam single-mindedly pursues the one thing she wants to do before she dies: eat pizza from her favourite spot in Harlem. Along the way, a very pretty and helpful law student named Eric (Joseph Quinn) joins her journey, drawn to her because her gorgeous cat found him and led him to her.

While the premise of the movie offers ꦜquite a lot of potential for freshness, it doesn’t always take advantage of it. It’s pretty predictable, its central dramatic story is mediocre, a༺nd since so much of the movie is obviously intended to be more moving than scary, its horror is reliant on jumpscares. Nyong’o and Quinn manage to salvage what could have been a thoroughly boring, almost melodramatic experience by acting their absolute butts off, but though its human characters are decent, the real main character is Sam’s aforementioned cat, Frodo.

I went into Day One expecting to have the life scared out of me, but my partner𒁏 and I found ourselves giggling far more than we expected, which is basically any time the camera focused on the cat. In fact, that cat carries the plot on its back, propelling the movie forward.

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It is Frodo that finds Eric, has a stare down with him that leads Eric to seemingly solidify in his mind that Frodo is a mystic sage that will lead him out of this night𓃲marish scenario, and brings him to Sam. It is Frodo that escapes as Eric goes on an individual expedition to find Sam medication, forcing Eric to put himself in danger’s way to save him. Sam probably likes this strange man who’s attached himself to her a little bit, but his escape from New York City means ensuring Frodo’s safety as well. At the end of the movie, Sam leaves a note for Eric in the jacket she gives him, and it tells him to take care of her cat. Without Frodo to bring them together, it’s unlikely either Eric or Sam would have survived.

But just in general, the cat is the highlight. As the pair desperately swims through flooded tunnels to escape aliens, a shot of the drenched kitty sent me into fits of laughter, dissipating any tension that the film might have hoped to maintain. As aliens rage around them, the cat observes almost dispassionately, completely silent and uninterested – he is literally the chillest cat in the world, and I cannot believe he isn’t screaming. When the two characters enter a new setting, the cat is the first to silently pad around the area and ൩make sure there are no threats, sniffing things and licking unfamiliar object𓄧s (including alien eggs, which… ew).

If you’re a cat owner or lover, it’s hard not to see this movie as a love letter to the feline housepet. I don’t h෴ave cats but my housemates have a whopping total of four, which means every cat I see on screen is a reason to point and go, “Oh my god, that’s just like what [inse✱rt cat] does”. Nyong’o and Quinn did good jobs, but Frodo did the goodest. Who’s a good kitty?

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