Sadly, the greatest aspects to the film are outweighed by the many problems

Rating: 5/10 (23 March 2019)

Jordan Peele's second film, "Us", has a lot going for it. The acting, cinematography, and music being standouts as truly superb aspects of the movie. In the end though, there are too many obvious and massive problems to be ignored. The numerous issues and inconsistencies render this film unable to reach its grand prospects. As an apocalypse movie, it is certainly one of the most original of all time, but the execution is admittedly poor. The mechanics of the underground facilities remains unexplained, an easy question being how the tethered magically have all the same clothing as their counterparts on the surface. There is never an answer. How did the tethered not run out of rabbits after being abandoned by the government, especially if they were used as a sole source of food? Where did the allegedly millions of red jumpsuits and massive golden scissors come from? How was the movement coordinated if only "Red" could ever speak? Why does Adelaide act the way she does in the beginning of the film knowing that she is truly the tethered version of herself, and why does "Red" act so strangely and alien if she is truly the "normal" of the two? Why would Adelaide ever agree to return to Santa Cruz in a million years? Is it suggested that Adelaide has evil intentions from the very start based upon her sinister smile towards Jason as she drives away with her family in the end, or the one she expresses when being driven home by her "parents" as a child? It makes pretty much no sense. This movie has a lot of great things about it, but also a lot of really dumb things. 5/10