Made no sense.

Rating: 5/10 (29 March 2019)

Get Out was okay. Like I enjoyed it, had good suspense towards the end and had some top notch acting but it was no Best Picture nominee (if A Quiet Place, Tremors, The Thing, Dawn Of The Dead, They Live, and Evil Dead 2 didn't get BP nominations then neither should've Get Out) but overall I thought it was pretty good. I'd say Daniel Kaluuya's Oscar for best actor was the only that truly deserved a nomination. But I was fairly excited to see Us since I heard it was made on a much bigger budget, was about 30 minutes longer than Get Out, and was supposed to be a psychological horror akin to The Shining. So I saw it and while I liked it I probably liked Get Out more. So the acting is again very good and the cinematography is great (same genius who did It Follows) but the story just didn't make much sense. So there have been these random clones living underground for decades just eating rabbits? The explanation really didn't make much sense. Do these clones mirror people's actions or not? Are their personalities the exact opposites or the exact same? All of this stuff just changes back and forth. I thought there would be some clever scenes of them using their own weaknesses or strengths against their clones, but that only kind of happens one time. And the twist at the end really made no sense. So she just forgot her entire past? Also, the movie has VERY inappropriate bouts of random humor. Like people said Get Out was too funny but that movie only had like two funny scenes. This movie however has random prat falls and people going "lol girl say wutttt????" like there's an entire scene were a person is trying to call the police but her Siri mistakes her command for an Ice Tea rap song with tons of swearing, so as she's being violently murdered it's just blaring a random goofy gangsta rap song about being black or whatever. It makes no sense. Imagine if they started playing 'Rock Lobster' during the "here's Johnny!" scene in The Shining, or if they played James Browns' 'I Feel Good' during the blood test scene in The Thing. Just...why? Get Out was never that obnoxious. Actually this movie makes me appreciate Get Out alot more because that film actually made a lot of sense and was short. This one doesn't. But on the pluses it does look very nice and some of the moments are very intense. It looks very nice but I wish the script made more sense.