Meh at best

Rating: 1/10 (1 July 2017)

So, expecting this wonderful horror movie by Peele everyone is raving about.
About 1 hour in, I'm bored out of my mind, checking my own phone more than Chris did in the whole movie.
It is sooooooooooooo slow... And WTF is with Chris' facial expressions on so many occasions?
Foreshadowing is done in a rather "in your face so you get it" manner. Nothing clever. And also, easy to miss.
When the "horror" comes, it's sooooooo weak, it's not even horror. One bit of jump-scare via a musical cue.
Apart from that, it's just boringly tedious. Even when Chris escapes, you think, well that's easy. There is no tension, none.
In comparison, a likewise laid out movie like Texas Chainsaw Massacre is smarter, as it gets under your skin.
This one doesn't. The whole plot is explained by a short TV presentation. There's supposed to be all kinds of clever references towards that but those are too vague. Foreshadowing works when you as the viewer get an "Aha" experience. Never happened.
The movie is trying too hard to be too clever, and in doing so gets ahead of itself. It's trying to be a representation of black Americans being silenced by the white Americans. Well, it does shove that down your throat by the extremely stark white versus black setting. The way it tries to be clever about it is in all kinds of gimmicky, yet failing signs, like the "in a sunken place" hypnotism being a synonym for blacks feeling powerless in America. This could have been a much, much better movie if it hadn't put more emphasis on trying to be this kind of Black is Best presentation, and had been more mixed. And mixed as in racially mixed. Even Saw did this better. Get out puts the pieces like a chessboard, painfully contrasting. Had it been, for instance, a group of young people of several races, it could have worked so much better. If Jordan Peele wanted to send out an anti-racism message, he should have done it that. Not in this Black is Best fashion. A mixed group of protagonists triumphing over racist antagonists had been perfectly suited for the basic theme of replacing your own aging, decrepit body with that of a younger one by transplanting your brain. That whole premise would have been kept and the end result so much better. Oow, and that funny end Too stupid to end this kind of movie that way.