Suspenseful, Scary, Silly...

Rating: 7/10 (3 April 2019)

I spent much of this film writhing around in my chair, and even had to close my eyes at a couple of points. Peele is a fantastically talented director, and the film starts off with plenty of promise, I was enraptured for the first 40 minutes. However, the next hour drags on, and while the rhythm of suspense - jumpscare - suspense - jumpscare has a brilliantly brooding creepiness to it, it just gets a bit tiresome after a while, and for the last half hour I was waiting for it to hurry up and get it over with.
Get Out is definitely deeper and stronger as a film, this is all just a bit confused and fumbling. Nevertheless, it is very well crafted, so worth a watch if you fancy raising your heartbeat for a couple of hours.