If you get a Invitation, Get In...!

Rating: 8/10 (18 May 2017)

After buying a free ticket for the cinema as a mothers day-gift, i looked through all the big-budget-blockbuster movies which are running currently, and stumbled upon a little Independent-Thriller which i heard great things about: Get Out. The premise sounded kinda like the one of "The Invitation" a movie, me and my mom pretty much loved, so we watched it...
And we weren't disappointed, Get Out is a pretty great Psychothriller with some humor thrown in, and a nice commentary on racism.
The atmosphere get's set up perfectly in the opening scene (which is a very well done one-take), and it stays that way for the rest of the movie, the only downside are a few unneeded jump scares, from which only one is justified, when our protagonist runs over a deer with his car. Because of that i was very glad when, roughly from the halfway point the jump scares completely disappeared and got switched out with scenes of suspense and some great surprises.
Interestingly, for me and my mom, the similarities between this movie and "The Invitation" doesn't end with the premise, after the opening scene the movie starts with a title sequence with a creepy string- theme and pictures of trees passing by (seemingly because someones driving) and then later the protagonists hit a animal on the road, which serves as a set up for later in the movie.
After that Get Out starts to get it's own voice and intrigued and surprised us pretty much the whole way through.
The characters are very interesting, and the acting is fantastic, sometimes subtle, sometimes kinda over-the-top, but in the end you get why.
The only thing that bothered me a bit, which is something about the climax, but i already marked this as a spoiler-review:
When the protagonist starts killing the family who tried to hypnotise him and use his body, he shows nearly no remorse by doing pretty brutal and violent stuff to them. I know that he wants to survive, but he has nearly no negative reaction almost like he likes it, even though he got introduced as someone who doesn't like violence. That's also another (and i promise the last) thing i have to compare to a slightly similar climax in the movie "The Invitation", where they also have to defend themselves, but more like normal people (like us) who never had to do something like that, but have to, even though they don't like it. (Also there are no unmotivated...well i don't think even one jump scare in that movie, and it's tense as hell throughout)
But the rest of the movie is way to strong to let these things destroy the entertainment value or something, most of all because of the great sense of (dark) humor it has. The other star next to Daniel Kaluuya is the incredibly funny and sincere LilRey Howery, in the most funny scenes in the movie, but never too distractingly funny to get you out of the mood, more to give you a little pause from the suspense.
Get Out is all in all a very entertaining, and surprisingly well done Thriller, with a mysterious and intriguing story, great acting and sense of humor...