Stylish, witty, well acted, but at least half an hour too long.

Rating: 4/10 (14 December 2019)

Another of Jordan Peele's worthy Afmerican takes on traditional US horror. This time it's the Zombie apocalypse. Great acting, direction, production, funny jokes, but (here we go again) ep-ic story fail.
By way of exposition, the opening titles mention 'thousands of miles of tunnels under the continental USA, some of which have no known purpose'. There are also millions of frames in this movie, some of which have no known purpose. That shows somebody in the cutting room being a bit precious about their movie.
The budget's bigger, the cast is starrier, the script has just as many good jokes ("Alexa - call the police!" and "What's 'Home Alone?'"), but oh dear, the story is feeble. It tries desperately hard - and doesn't succeed - to explain 'why zombies', but in a slasher movie, there is no need. Not too gory though, so that's good.
At about the 1 hour mark, I was wondering if the zombies were meant to symbolize a part of Afro-American-ness that wants to reject the aspirations to WASP middle-classness that the protagonist family epitomize. That might have been interesting to explore, and the scene of the black zombies slaughtering the white family is quite edgy for that, but the notion disappears in a flurry of overwrought boss-zombie-clone-combat (zombat?) which GOES ON FAR TOO LONG, Mr. Peele. 'Get Out' was tight; this is flabby.