People Are just Wrongo...Us is a Fabulous Movie

Rating: 9/10 (10 April 2019)

..I was a little surprised at to see all the negative 1~3/10 reviews that I looked at before seeing this film tonight. I confess that the public reviews here at IMDB almost scared me off seeing this movie, and that would have been wrong, by those making these reviews, and a mistake by me for listening to them.
First let me note that some people are going to get fabulously rich from making this movie....Cost, 20 million, worldwide gross so far about 220 million....that's a big, big spread.
Secondly, if anyone is going to deserve the Oscar for lead actress for 2019, it is going to be Lupita Nyong'o...wowzer, what a gripping, almost gravitational force performance by her. (She grabbed me by the throat and never let me go...damn she was great).
Next, most people say the first 20 minutes was okay but that the movie lost them after that. I disagree, the beginning was slow but then the movie picked up a non-stop breakneck pace with a fine internal logic.
Lastly, let us be honest, as the white boy I am, it was at first odd to be seeing a black family, not a black super hero, not a black cop, not black drug dealers, but a normal and respectable black family be so totally the center of an American film, but then to be subtlety yet totally shifted as a viewer to be rooting for this black family to not only survive, but to prevail...that was a nice trick to so flawlessly pull-off. Kudos to Jordan Peele for this.
So go enjoy this movie...it is a winner on many levels.