Dumb, terrible film

Rating: 1/10 (6 June 2019)

As someone who thought Jordan Peele's Get Out was somewhat overrated (Best Picture nominee? I don't think so), compared to the atrocity that is US, it in addition to about a million other movies, is a masterpiece! Sorry, but Us is just pure idiocy. Subterranean doppelgangers? The mere idea is silly. And the twist was pretty obvious from the beginning. I'm finding an increasing problem of really bad pacing in a lot of modern movies. Us moves at a fast pace, but it's too fast. It just jumps right to the action without any character development for Adelaide, her family or their friends. Red and her exposition speech was obnoxious storytelling. Talk about spoon-feeding the viewer.
Although the adult characters were decent enough with their performances, especially award-winning actresses N'yong and Moss, the kids were annoying. The daughter always had this stupid look on her face and the son barely spoke. And the comedy bits in this were incredibly ill-timed and unfunny. That part where the family argued about who killed the most Tethers was the most cringe exchange I've seen in a movie this year and I've seen my share of films in theatres. The father and that performance art line? Ugh! And the movie should have been over at the 30-minute mark, but nope, let's killer talk the family and let them get away ON PURPOSE so they can deus ex machina their way to surviving.
Between this putrid piece and Peele's recent incredibly mediocre Twilight Zone reboot, I think Get Out was his 1-hit wonder. This mind-numbing mess is still above a 7 on this site, yet Curse of La Llorona, a genuinely frightful and entertaining horror flick is like 5.5? I guess Oscar-winning movies make fans give the director's next project an automatic pass, despite it being trash. And Us is trash!