Us

Rating: 5/10 (15 April 2019)

Us
2019
Dir: Jordan Peele
Runtime: 1hr 56mins
Synopsis: Accompanied by her husband, Adelaide Wilson returns to the beach house home where she grew up as a child. Haunted by a traumatic experience from the past, Adelaide grows increasingly concerned something bad is going to happen. Her worst fears become true when four masked strangers descend upon the house forcing the Wilsons to fight for survival. When the masks come off the family is horrified to learn that each attacker takes the appearance of one of them.
Just going to say off rip that I had relatively high expectations for this. Rotten Tomatoes gives it a high score, Get Out has a high score and even won and Oscar. I'm not going to say I'm totally disappointed but I guess I just expected a little more. Jordan Peele was recently announced to be the host of the new reboot of "The Twilight Zone" which suites him because after seeing this film and in comparison to "Get Out" both films are like plot lines taken straight out of a Twilight Zone episode. The film starts real casual everything is normal and then some insanely weird turn begins to change pretty much the whole outlook on either the world or the way things operate in this "universe". Storyline was great I can't knock it there, it was well written with some very odd twists throughout the whole film. I was not entirely entertained through the whole thing unfortunately with kind of getting bored. Pretty much standard "horror" theme with 20 mins of story build and then 30 mins in you start to see the weird stuff happen. The ending is the part that really gives it a twilight zone vibe which leaves it somewhat open ended. The cinematography was nothing to complain about. With being a feature film it lacked on jump scares and I guess actually "scary" scenes. A few gore cringe scenes here and there but nothing to make you turn away in disgust. The characters were almost too predictable, the father was the "comedic relief" complete with dad jokes and trying to "lighten the mood" attitude. The kids obviously did what kids do in films like this. Play a pivotal role without outshining the main character. My biggest complaint about the film and I literally could not shake it even after the film was over was what they did with the characters. They added an attribute to the "Us" versions of the characters that I absolutely could not stand and in my opinion shouldn't never ever ever ever be done with horror villains. But that's just my opinion and I don't get paid for my opinion lol. As for a theatre watch... ehhh I suppose if you really want to see it, it's not too long where it becomes boring or unbearable but I would probably just wait like I did with "Get Out" I probably wouldn't buy it unless Jordan Peele releases 4 more "horror" films and then makes them a set or apart of the same universe. And I use the term horror lightly because I honestly don't even know if I can classify these as horror. They are just kind of different and strange. They are very lacking in the "scary" realm but I suppose it depends on who you ask.
I'd say it was mediocre at best. Like I said the writing is fantastic and the plot is great, but going in I had different expectations. I was expecting more of a terror film than what I got. Go watch Get Out and then go see this so that way you have a general idea of what your walking into. Not saying they are really similar in storyline, but they have similar vibes.