A Curious Mediocrity

Rating: 7/10 (15 June 2018)

Fundamentally, this is not an interesting film, its not particularly well written, does not have any particularly outstanding performances, the plot is pedestrian and the whole gamut of available cliches is run through.
Yet, Get Out demanded that I watch it, principally because its writer and director won the Academy Award for Best Screenplay, which on reflection says more about the current state of the Academy than it does about the film itself.
As genuine fan of Jordan Peele's Key and Peele, I was excited to see this film, especially after the universal praise the film received from critics before its writer was garlanded with an Oscar. Perhaps too much of a fan? I could not escape the sensation of hearing Jordan Peele deliver the lines he had written for his characters instead of the characters appearing as entities whole and believable.
The film was certainly successful, but sadly it will not age well, I suspect.
Boring, predictable, and cliched. Get Out gets 5 stars out of 10.