A bloated Twilight Zone episode

Rating: 6/10 (27 March 2019)

There's an interesting 30-60 minutes in Us focusing solely on the family, but unfortunately it was weighed down by a whole lot of other stuff that accomplished nothing but confuse the point of the movie and pad it's running time in order to make it a two-hour feature film. That wouldn't have been so much of an issue had the film actually been, ya know...scary. There are a couple of decent scares but not nearly enough. Not enough dread either, the type of sustained tension i want in a good horror movie. It did have some good laughs, but again, its a horror movie. I want it to scare me. Make me think. Have a good story (and on that note). The plot and mythology repeatedly contradicted themselves, exposing glaring plot holes and lazy story logic. So much about Us made no sense. So many of its story elements and visual motifs amounted to nothing.
The only reason it wasn't a total loss was because its home invasion with doppelgÃ¤ngers premise was so cool and the ending, pretty interesting. Everything else was of middling to poor quality. It's not enough to have something to say. You actually have to make sense and be entertaining. Us failed on those last two fronts.