Peele tried to hard on putting references and easter eggs...and he forgot to make a great movie.

Rating: 6/10 (14 March 2020)

Us it's not a bad movie...but it tried so hard to be symbolic, to make references, to engage in the viewer on its twists..that somehow became too fascinated with its own gimmicks and didn't deliver enough.
First it was too long. The rythm was not on point. I think the doppelgangers should've appeared after 10 minutes of film. 2 hours was too much, and because of that, only a few scenes were somehow scary. Also the build up was good, but when the tethers actually show up, the film loses a bit of edge. Probably, again, because they should have come up a bit before they did - the problem was that peele was trying to put a lot of symbology in order to make sense, that he forgot the movie needed rythm.
I don't mind with a movie that leaves a lot of questions unsaid, and uses symbolic measures or metaphors, while not explaining that enough. Heck, i loved movies like holy motors, under the silver lake or mulholland drive. The problem is that this movie doesn't want to be like that. It wants to make sense, it wants to explain to the viewer what's happening - otherwise it wouldn't worry that much on putting so many references thoughout its length, in order for people to go back again and see what they missed.
If you're so much worried on giving easter eggs to the viewers for the twists, you should also try to give meaning to the other parts of the movie - and in this case it didn't happen. Plus, you don't try to give explanations like this movie did - on the most boring and predictable way. Jordan Peele is a good screenwriter, he knows he can't do that like he did here.
All in all: not bad, but it tried too much to be smart when it could just be a great horror film. He tried to put a lot of eggs in the same basket, too many. For me get out was way better.