The sophomore jinx gets Peele

Rating: 3/10 (27 February 2020)

Wow, talk about a sophomore jinx. Jordan Peele's second film is a big drop in terms of quality from his debut feature Get Out. Us, is one strange movie and not in a good way. I don't know what Peele was going for here. For a horror film, it did not have enough tension or suspense to be affective. As for the dark comedic racial and socioeconomic underpinnings that he was so successful with his prior outing, much of that fell flat here. Very little worked with this picture. Even the surprise ending was a yawner because much of what came before it was so uninspiring, that by the time of the big reveal, you had long ago checked out. Hopefully his third film will see him back in form. As for Us, you can safely skip it.