Disappointing

Rating: 5/10 (26 March 2019)

Yes, the acting was great, the production value fantastic, some really enjoyable parts with elements of terror and suspense but the most important element of a film is the story and the environment it lives within. I am all too happy to suspend my belief and take that leap of faith for art, but the back story here does not really make any real sense. In a zombie movie you get that a virus might cause these effects and that somehow it continues to be animated until the corpse is completely decimated. This film does not address why there are so many of these doppelgangers were ever produced. How they built all these vast tunnel networks without anyone noticing is just silly. They abandoned this project after creating enough to replace everyone in the country. They probably would have figured out the issues after a much smaller experiment. And they left enough rabbits for them to eat for decades in cages. Yes, rabbits, rebirth, cliche. BTW, humans will die if they only eat rabbit. So they wander aimlessly and couldn't figure out a way to escape from a place that wasn't even secure. And why would the government allow this secrect experiment to continue? Wouldn't they destroy the evidence? So these doppelgängers had sex and birthed children? From their behavior it seems that they would just crap themselves. Did they use a restroom? How was this facility all over the country maintained and cleaned for decades? Who paid for these enormous electric bills? Science fiction is great and makes sense within it own world, but this story doesn't follow any sort of parameters. To me this seemed like a self indulgent attempt to fit a square into a circle - it was so esoteric, I'm not even sure anyone but Peele could understand the structure of the story. I've seen B-movies that make more sense - Sharknado or Attack of the Killer Donuts At least they're satirical.
In one scene the leader of the clones says a throw away line that she's an American. Peele says this film is about the current state of our country. How? Why? How are we supposed infer this concept. He seems to have tried so hard to be deep and artsy he lost perspective. Peele seems to be pulling an M. Night like after Sixth Sense. With all the hype and probably the pressure to one up on Get Out which was great, this film fell flat. Let's hope the next one is better.