Somebody's Making A LOT of Money on THIS

Rating: 7/10 (9 March 2017)

Three and a half stars out of five. I deducted a half-star for the fact that it's obviously an amateur production, made much better than it should be by some very talented people who have bright, bright futures ahead of them. All in all, a fine effort and a load of fun for people who really dislike typical slasher films, because this isn't one.
Nowadays, a "horror" film can be just about anything including pornography, ersatz "snuff" films and documentaries about the government. We all seem to be a trifle more mature now than we used to be, and Hollywood is throwing everything at us hoping something will stick. So it's fun and cool when a low-budget film doesn't just cop- out with gross-out horror or get lost in politics. I appreciate it when the filmmaker actually gives the audience credit for having a brain and using it.
The camera work is this movie is seldom bad and often very good. The acting is surprisingly good, considering that we're not talking A- list cast here. The story is strong enough to keep you guessing and the little "touches" that make or break a story like this are there.
So what's wrong, if anything? Well, like a lot of low-budget "thrillers," Get Out begins to lose a little momentum as the requisite creepy buildup begins to change over into the inevitable "action." I don't think it's a spoiler to say that things get more fast-paced as the film progresses. It's during this part of the film where we begin to wonder just how far "over the top" we're going to go--too far into "that's dumb" land or not far enough into "that's boring" land. Get Out almost pulls it off-- but in the end we feel that we watched a really good low-budget thriller, not a true work of art that will go down in history. On the other hand, most people don't like art films anyway. Seven out of Ten.