Terribly dissapointing

Rating: 2/10 (15 February 2020)

I heard much good about this movie, so I had high hopes. From the very first line of the movie, Get Out beats you over the head with it's themes of racism. There was no tact or subtlety of emotional persuation. The film simply tells you how to feel, which was at times confusing. For example, when the couple first meets the parents, the parents seem friendly. But simply the young couple's uncomfortable reactions to the parents TELLS you to "feel awkward" because "this is an awkward encounter," even though the parents did nothing (yet) to elicit this kind of uncomfortable behavior. It really shows a weakness in writing when the theme of the movie is it's only real content. The main character was hopelessly uninteresting and, although the cast showed some potential talent, the eye-rolling moments throughout their interactions took away from any real substance. This is what happens when the "message" of the movie takes precedence over actual good film making. There were moments that felt like what would have made a great comedy sketch about racism, which makes sense give Jordan Peele's comedic background. But instead, these ridiculous and absurd moments were actually taken seriously. I honestly had to start doing the 10-second skip-ahead on my laptop because I couldn't bear a lot of this movie.
Oh and then there is the girlfriend's sudden physical transformation when we "realize" (as if it's not already obvious) that she's in on the slavery ploy. Hhmm perhaps making her look like a distopian lab woman rather than the normal girl she was the whole time should make us less sympathetic towards her when she dies? You'd think the fact that she's pretending to love men to lure them into slavery would be enough.
All-in-all, this movie was not worth the $3.99 Amazon price I paid for it and was a sad waste of my time.