Decent while watching. Terrible upon further review

Rating: 4/10 (12 April 2019)

Us is one of those movies that you enjoy while you're watching it in the theater, but once you begin to analyze and scrutinize after the fact, it all just falls apart. The story rests on a dumb, half-baked premise that gets revealed in the last ten minutes, leaving you to wonder if Jordan Peele got himself out of the corner he painted himself into in the story by just shoving the exposition at the end and adding a Shyamalan-esque twist to divert the audiences thinking away from the underdeveloped concept. In fact, I would rather have seen a movie based on the sci-fi concept (I'm trying not to give out spoilers here) than what we got.
That story could have been in the vein of a movie like Ex-Machina. Instead, we got a Stranger Things version of Michael Haneke's Funny Games (a FAR superior home invasion movie that deals with class struggles), complete with nostalgic references and straight rip-offs of other movies under the guise of homage.
Seriously, go see Us (just because) and then watch Funny Games and Ex-Machina back-to-back and you'll see what a letdown Us is.