Over Rated

Rating: 6/10 (18 June 2019)

This movie is given more credit than it deserves because of Peele's previous horror film, Get Out. while Get Out is also overrated (though still a good film), Us is overrated and isn't very good at all.
While the acting and directing, for the most part, do what they can to save this movie from completely falling apart, the writing is in shambles. The movie makes the unforgivable mistake of long episodes of exposition, telling and not showing. I believe it does this because Peel doesn't know how to show the story, because he doesn't know what the story is. I can almost see his thought process, "If I feed just enough allusions to cultural imagery into this movie, people will fill in the blanks that I can't." However, even that idea fails, because there isn't enough ammo for the viewer to use to fill in the blanks. Another unforgivable mistake Peele makes is showing the "monsters" too early in the film. Once the monsters are in the house, and especially once they start dialoguing like bad super villains, I am no longer afraid -- just bored.