Jordan Peele; One Hit Wonder

Rating: 2/10 (6 January 2020)

I'm a Jordan Peele fan; from Mad TV to Key and Peele. When I found out Peele was breaking up the act to pursue writing/directing horror movies, I was like "how selfish can the guy be?!" Then I watched Get Out and I was amazed by the film so much that I thought he had a natural talent for this. Then I watched Us, a huge disappointment! The start of the movie was great. A family vacationing at the beach, pretty normal but later on that day at night they were paid a visit by a family; they're doppelgangers. Which seem to be a movie about an internal struggle to survive against their doppelgangers became something overly complicated. It turns out these doppelgangers "the Tethered" are copies of everyone around the world that have been hiding out in tunnels that humans built a long time ago. They have no souls or personalities other than a killer instinct. They come out of hiding; killing people and also finding time to do hands across America. At the end, apparently the mother, who's been fighting alongside her family against this threat, recalls that she's not the real mother but a doppelganger who escaped into the real world leaving the real mother chained up since childhood. To make this perfectly clear; the mother from start to finish was NOT the real mother; the real mother was killed in the movie. This movie would be good if I wasn't spending a hour and half trying to understand what was going on or trying to understand the concept of the Tethered. Peele spent way too much time trying to explain what they were, which he totally failed explaining his own creation. The shocking surprise of the mother not being the real mother does not make sense after revealing how the Tethered act like. What was the whole point of killing people and doing hands across America? It made no sense nor did Peele explain the fascination behind the concept. I enjoyed creepiness behind the movie, the costumes, the individual characteristics of the Tethered but it was not enough to overcome this bad movie, story and plot. Jordan Peele; your only one Hit Wonder will always be Get Out. Now go back to your buddy, say you're sorry for breaking up the band and stick with what you're good at.