Allegorical muddle strangles would-be horror thriller

Rating: 5/10 (29 March 2019)

I find US very disappointing after the thrilling and ingeniously intriguing GET OUT. However, the film doesn't work as a thriller or horror entertainment, though you'd never tell from the critics reviews. Critically,that film was critically greeted with an inflated degree of intellectual seriousness, despite its excesses as a racial allegory in which every white character was a villain. Sadly, in US the allegory envelopes everything; and the attempt is too muddled to allow for the successful horror-thriller entertainment that seems to have been intended to accompany the allegory. Happily perhaps for Peele, the enthusiasm awaiting the allegorical efforts of a well regarded creator seems directly proportional to the incoherence of the allegorical effort. (Skeptical readers are invited to go for their amusement -- or enlightenment-- to Kyle Buchanan's 04-27 NYT presentation of 7 interpretations.) Indecipherable grim nonsense.