Story just doesn't work

Rating: 1/10 (13 January 2020)

I'm stunned audiences gave the film such high praise and can't help but wonder if we saw the same movie or if I'm missing something. Get Out was universally acclaimed by critics and fans so expectations were high for this movie but I found this movie boring and barely watchable if not for the decent acting. It's not really a horror and more of a home invasion mystery but the main problem is the story doesn't make sense. I can look past narrative inconsistencies and poor science but the overall plot of doppelgangers living in underground laboratories isn't well supported with a sensible reason and consequently their rise to take over the normal world doesn't make sense as well. The weak logical foundation isn't able to support an already creaky script. Overlooking logic, the other main issue is the direction. Whereas Get Out was filled with tension and mystery building up to the cathartic reveal, Us revealed the doppelgangers early on and there wasn't much tension or mystery beyond the backstory of who they were. So the movie just ends up being the main characters trying to run away and escape the doppelgangers. Finally the ending doesn't work with the dancing doppelganger and the twist ending that makes no sense. I struggled to watch the movie and was not invested in the characters and in fact the big mystery and question on my mind as I watched wasn't the doppelgangers but how critics and fans could possibly enjoy much less praise this movie. That's an even bigger mystery than the movie. And I can't help but wonder was this even written by Jordan Peele. How can the quality of the script be so bad here and so good in Get Out. That is another mystery.
As a note, this movie is an illustrative example of what is wrong with critics as a whole. They seem to be completely out to lunch on this and have lavished praise on this movie to the tune of 93% fresh tomatoes. It's a classic case of the Emperor has no clothes but it boggles my mind how such an intelligent group of experienced professional critics could be duped into thinking this is the new and better version of Get Out. This is why I don't bother with critics opinions and just go straight to the audiences views. This movie isn't worth watching for free. I usually only give a one rating to some Asylum or Steven Seagal movies. So it's that bad. Avoid this turkey and watch Get Out again.