All around solid movie.

Rating: 8/10 (3 February 2018)

I'm not going to say that this is necessarily a movie that most people should see, but it is very good and doesn't seem likely to turn anybody off. Part of the reason for this is the fact that people can't really seem to agree on what genre of movie it is. It's been called a satire, a comedy, a drama, and a horror movie, but it doesn't quite fit the bill for any of them. Regardless of what you consider it to be, it is an original movie that is great without drawing attention to itself. I was glad that Get Out got as many Oscar Nominations as it did, particularly Daniel Kaluuya's best actor nomination. Both his performance and Jordan Peele's writing and directing do an excellent job of giving a sense of normality to an absurd world. From pretty early on, the audience should expect to see some abnormal and possibly messed-up stuff in this movie, but everything else in the world is normal and the dialogue is impressively realistic.
Chris Washington is definitely one of the coolest characters of the year, deflecting every uncomfortable comment and situation with impressive grace. The passive-aggressive racist comments that are directed at Chris add so much tension to every scene, especially as the Armitage family starts saying increasingly uncomfortable things. I watched this with a group of friends, and people were audibly reacting to some of the lines in the family reunion scene. Regardless of race, I'm pretty sure everyone has had to tolerate lesser versions of what Chris has to here, which is part of what makes this movie so good to watch.
Of course, there is the whole Armitage master plan going on throughout all this. As I recall, it has a couple of plot holes, but people seem to be pretty tolerant of these. Plus, it's pretty impressive how logical the plot is considering how crazy the premise is. This aspect of the movie had far less of an impression on me the second time I saw it, but it was pretty striking the first time I saw it. I don't know if the whole thing with swapping black and white people's brains was meant to make some kind of statement, if so I couldn't figure it out.
I really recommend that people see this if they haven't. There are so many cool things about this movie, namely the fact that it was made with a $5 million budget, which is far lower than I would have guessed it to be. Jordan Peele and Daniel Kaluuya are now among the names that will automatically pique my interest in a movie if they are attached. It isn't exactly a work of art, but it is an undeniably solid movie. Overall Rating: 8/10.