A surprise offering from Jordan Peele

Rating: 8/10 (28 February 2017)

Get Out - I genuinely had no idea what to expect with this one. It's a horror movie, but it's written and directed by one of the Key & Peele guys. And I'm not gonna lie, I thought it might end up being a white-bashing couple of hours based on one of the trailers. But it turned out to be a very solid horror flick. The main actor, Daniel Kaluuya, I had only seen on the English show Black Mirror (which is incredible by the way) so seeing him in this type of American role was quite a shift. He does extraordinarily well, showing a wide range of different emotions. And finally I can report that an accent was done well! I never heard him drop out of it. Race definitely plays a big role, but it's not presented in a vicious way. It more just shows the constant foot-in-mouth moments of white people when they're around African Americans. Rather than a hateful approach to the divide, it takes an honest route and pokes fun at it. The movie's theme and underlying story of course go deeper than this, showing the first time director's ability to get this across without just having the white people shouting the n word to show us they're the villains. A smart, creepy, and satisfying social commentary. 8/10.