Stupid, Derivative, Insulting, and the Alternate Ending has the Director's Commentary over it. 2 actors tried. Dir didn't.

Rating: 1/10 (22 October 2018)

This movie is derivative drivel, but a couple of actors tried even while acting uphill against the material. See below. I had heard good things about it when it first came out (reviews, not word of mouth.) I also would not have rented it if I had realized that the tailor's mannequin Allison Williams was in it. She's awful, and obvious, which is a good descriptor of the film in general.
Spoilers: In case you've had a head injury.
There's a family in the woods with a secret. Who saw that coming? The movie is pretty racist and stupid from beginning to end. Basically, black people have become so cool that old money is "upgrading" their old firmware the into a cooler case, but the idea that the entire house of cards can be brought down by a bright flash of light is pretty lame. I guess we better keep all the brainwashed black people inside during THUNDERSTORMS!
I felt bad for Daniel Kaluuya. He tried really hard to maintain a sense of suspense, and try to suspend your disbelief that his character wouldn't have figured out what was going on long ago. He almost looks like he wants to peer at the camera in an apologetic way as if to say "I'm sorry this insults your intelligence, and wastes your time, but I can only follow the script (if such a thing exists.)
Lil Rel Howery provided some much needed comic relief, and he was very good, but it says much about the poor script and story that he figures everything out OVER THE PHONE!
The entire movie was irretrievably racist, stupid, and unapologetically raids the genre for material. He should have thrown in an actual zombie. Nobody's done that in a while. Peele includes both necessities of truly good diabolical schemes. 1.) Reveal the entire scheme to the victim (even though in this case I'm sure he knew.) 2.) Leave the victim completely unattended. What could possibly go wrong? (See every James Bond/Indiana Jones movie ever made.)
However, and this is important, Peele has so little respect for his audience that not only does he include an even WORSE and more racist ending, but it has the DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY over the top of the alternate in case you still hadn't picked up on the rest of his cinematic subtlety. Peele's point is that he made it "during Obama" (his words) but people were sufficiently "woke" (also his word) by the time he finished the "film" so he felt he could use the primary ending, and the rest of us knuckle draggers would get it anyway. What a pseudo-intellectual, self important, buffoon.
Jordan if you ever read this, which I doubt since your script doesn't suggest a reader, the only surprising/cool thing in your movie was the scene with the mounted deer head. Thanks for insulting me again during the "alternate -basically the same as the other -ending" though. The flash thing was really stupid and I want my money, and my life back. You should consider making commercials or something where subtlety isn't required.