THE OPINION OF THE “WORLD” – WHY NOT
After a first episode that hit the American box office, Without a sound 2 comes to perpetuate the adventures of the Abbott family, grappling with an invasion of alien monsters not only blind, but above all ultra-sensitive to the slightest noise. While the first part takes place in the small perimeter of the foyer, typical of the American middle class, it stages the flight of the same characters, led by their mother Evelyn (Emily Blunt), in search of a refuge. .
Funny noise puritanism
Exploring the territory therefore becomes a new challenge, which consists in revisiting the remains of a now devastated civilization, in finding a corner and resources to survive. Equipped with an explanatory prologue, this sequel aims above all to exploit a formula that makes sound a real danger of death: anyone who emits above a certain threshold is immediately pursued by the leaping creatures – which results in a strange puritanism of noise.
The problem is however always the same: the force of the concept and its potentially infinite promises of staging find little outlet in a result which is satisfied to maximize its effects (the soundtrack finally saturated, with the exception of a short silent passage) and reinforce familialist clichés. With his mother, courage, devoting himself to his children (but not without the indispensable help of a man, in the person of a former survivalist neighbor), Without a sound 2 accomplishes the feat of transforming horror cinema into sanitized entertainment for the whole family.
Without a sound 2, de John Krasinski, avec Emily Blunt, Cillian Murphy, Millicent Simmonds (E.-U., 1 h 37 min).
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