Don't be so Quick to get in on "Get Out"

Rating: 6/10 (22 March 2017)

Jordan Peele's directorial debut "Get Out" is a comedy-horror about race with a sinister twist. With its phenomenal reviews and acclaim it's getting one could assume that this film is simultaneously "funny, scary, and thought-provoking" (as rottentomatoes put it). Well just because a movie has racial themes does not all of a sudden make it a good movie. We get it! Some people are racist bigots. Just because this film depicts that (even in a satirical way) does not make it amazing. The film is a horror, right!? Well this film ain't scary in the least bit and Jordan Peele relies on cheap jump scares early on to keep the viewer on edge. "Get Out" isn't necessarily bad; it does have some humor, intelligently thought-out character decisions (something uncommon in horror movies), and cleverly depicts a forgotten form of racism. But it all still isn't enough to overcome its absence of any real horror, its inability to say something new, and its violently empty conclusion that did not payoff in the slightest.