Interesting but flawed

Rating: 6/10 (27 March 2019)

Us ist the next big feature film written and directed by Jorden Peele. After the big Success with 'Get out', 'Us' follows a similar formula for success. The introduction of the familiy and overall the built up for the movie was made really well and leaves you with big excitment for the rest of the film. The score is great and really fits the scenes. Unfortunately the movie does not hold up and when the horror part of the movie starts the tension just drops. 'Us' tries do deliever very thrilling scenes but fails. Everyhing feels slow, the tension was very low and you never get scared that something happens to the charakters. The story is just too easy written. Also the villains are poorly exceuted and more laughable than really scary. Even though Lupita Nyong'o and espescailly Elisabeth Moss delivier very good perfomances the viewer never experience that the events are real. The other actors werde decent and did not really deliver something special to the story. After the ending you leave the theather very confused and that is something positive because you can still think about the movie a few days later, even thought after some days it still makes no sense at all.
Overall 'Us' is an very interesting movie that is poorly executed and still leaves me with mixed feelings. On the one hand it had big potential to become something different and special but on the other hand it fails to deliver and becomes another missed opportunity in the horror genre. 6/10