Spoiled by the Hype

Rating: 6/10 (3 June 2017)

I was fully expecting an original horror film featuring a brilliant lead, Daniel Kaluuya,but what I got was a relatively bland thriller. The production value and acting of the film was above par for a "horror" film. The story was never a surprise to me. Maybe I had spoiled the movie by listening to the glowing reviews or watched a trailer for the film. Generally speaking if I know the main plot from the trailer then the movie is pretty thin. I just don't see this being as good as the hype or ratings have lead me to believe.
The racist aspects of the movie are so tired and beat down that I really don't get how this movie contributes anything new to the conversation. Kevin Heart and Tyler Perry have already beat the black boyfriend / white family stuff into tired tropes. When I start flipping the races around from white to black to Hispanic to Asian the story really loses a lot of bite. This tells me that there isn't a strong horror aspect to the story, and that the story would have been more effective if there were more than 3 effected persons and if there were no racial biases. Then the horror of losing control becomes more pure. Where was the basement with the failed experiments and deformed persons? Where was the ugliness of the process? Why does a white family choose black people? If the are racist then wouldn't they use other white people? The whole racist aspect feels flat and poorly conceived.
Based on the hype and reviews and all the news, I expected a much better film. The emperor wears no clothes.