Heavy handed silliness.

Rating: 4/10 (15 September 2019)

Someone should explain to writer/director Jordan Peele that "Twilight Zone" episodes were only thirty minutes long. They weren't two hours. Just like his earlier movie "Get Out", "Us" is a elongated "Twilight Zone". The first half hour or so of "Us" is painfully dull. After that the movie picks up but by the end it doesn't take us anywhere worth while. The cast is fine, I guess. The movie is not. I'm also not a fan of the horror movie "twist". I know people who love the "twist" but I like to enjoy a film's journey not it's contrived "shock" ending. I think the "twist" usually takes away more from the final product than it adds. That said, I didn't like the twist in "Us" either. It's just extra icing on a cake that wasn't too good to begin with.