Hit or miss depending on which version of you watches.

Rating: 6/10 (22 March 2020)

From Jordan Peele who gave us 'Get Out', the latest horror film nominated for an Oscar Best Picture comes his latest offering 'Us' starring the stunning Lupita Nyong'o. We follow her character Adelaide and her family's vacation which she's been dreading, going back to the place where she was once traumatized as a kid having been lost in one of the carnival's attractions. Her uneasiness comes to fruition when intruders show up on their driveway and they try to maneuver their way out as the suspicious but familiar-looking characters that seem to want to take over their lives.
Now due to some loopholes in the story-telling it was hard to make sense of what was going on, even after the reveal near the end. I had to read up about the movie to understand it a little more and it helped me appreciate it a little more. Because of that it's easy to assume that maybe part of the fun was sucked out because the movie was juggling too many ideas up in the air and that it failed to come up with an ending that measured up to what it heavily referenced to, Thriller by Michael Jackson and Jaws by Steven Speilberg. Just the same, Jordan did his homework, Lupita committed and delivered and Winston Duke (Black Panther's M'Baku) was a treat to watch.
I have so many questions that were left unanswered and to avoid spoilers I will not enumerate them here. One that I can bring up though is I still don't get the 11:11 reference. Every time I see it I mutter "make a wish" under my breath. As for the bit about Hands across America, the director said that it represents "American optimism and hope - it's a great gesture but you can't actually cure hunger and all that." That I get. it actually resonates with the current landscape of social media, what with it's keyboard warriors woke and cancelling culture that may be getting people to discuss about topics not usually talked about but at the end of the day still fails to change anything.
So if you're looking for a pure horror movie where you want to be scared for no reason, look somewhere else because this will leave you more with puzzled looks than fear in your eyes.