Gets halfway

Rating: 5/10 (18 December 2019)

Get Out gets half a good film unfortunately though I've seen both halves and therefore half points is all that I can score here.
Without a doubt there is a lot to admire and I liked several aspects of the film. In particular the audience mystery was held up in parallel with our protagonists: even though I knew that I was watching a horror film my own inability to orientate to the nature and form of the threat was nicely delayed through the opening scenes. I had not read reviews or any contaminating information beforehand so my responses to the films stimulus were well piqued by the film.
Also I liked how the double issue of an interracial couple and a mixed social class couple acted to utterly inoculate our protagonist from his normal human ability to sense when things are "off" or potentially harmful.
After all that nice establishment of our characters, their environment and story start points I found that nothing positive lasted for long for me.
People got stupider and events got more ridiculous until only lashings of coincidences and plot armour were being presented.
Oddly unbalanced comedy entered at about this stage too.
By the final act I was bored and unengaged: nothing new was being adventured any longer and plot devices were blatant.
The explosion of suspense to scares was a whimper after a very long slow build up.
I don't follow why the film needed to jettison it's attachment to character building in order to provide so little shock and awe.
I rate a 5/10 for a film that tentatively interested me with its mature attention to character and legitimate scenario making but then completely lost me as it let it's jack in the box off for the second half.