Nothing Special

Rating: 5/10 (3 April 2019)

This is an average thriller. I can't find anything that makes it anything more. The characters, to me, are boring and I didn't care for any of them. I found myself laughing more at their stupidity than caring for their situation. I don't get why they couldn't be a bit more compelling. Right from the start, they constantly make stupid decision after stupid decision. Stupidity is the driving force behind the plot just like so many other basic thriller/horror movies in the past. I know that it's probably supposed to be an allegory for what our current real-world situation is but I just couldn't get myself to care for it. The twists were boring and didn't make the story that interesting. It feels, to me, like Peele was so concerned with trying to say something that he didn't bother to wonder if the movie was something worth giving a voice to. Get Out was, at least, different than what most people had seen before. This, though, is just more of the same.