Decent movie, but over-rated

Rating: 6/10 (5 March 2018)

As a general rule of thumb, I trust IMDb ratings to represent how good / bad a movie is. But there have been a couple of movies recently that I've seen that have just not lived up to their IMDb rating promise, and this is one of them. Never in a million years is this a 7.7-star (at the time of writing) movie.
First, the positives. "Get Out" was very well acted, and all the characters were believable. And I was gripped enough throughout to not be checking my phone every few minutes -- in that respect, it's a decent enough movie.
I note quite a lot of the reviews here dwell on the racial theme of the film, and give it 1-star on the basis that they think that such racism isn't real, and the film is simply "paranoid." My hunch is these people are probably white and thus don't really know what it's like to live as a black person in a white society. So to mark it down on that basis is a nonsense.
I'm marking it down because it wasn't a particularly great horror movie, it was somewhat predictable in parts, and I found it a little weird in parts too. For example, the movie was pretty serious largely -- not something you would call a comedy -- but there were segments that seemed to jump into jokey wisecrack-comedy territory, notably around the main character's TSA-employed buddy Rod Williams (played by Lil Rel Howery). Those scenes just seemed a little out of kilter with the rest of the movie.
I also thought the ending was a bit rubbish.
Overall, "Get Out" is a watchable movie, but it simply is not Oscar material, and 7.7 on the IMDb Richter scale is just wrong.