Though a great film, it is a step down from Get Out

Rating: 7/10 (9 September 2019)

Took me a while to get around to this, I also plan to watch The Florida Project soon which is another film I've been meaning to watch.
Anyway, I really like this is film, especially the beginning when it's just the family interacting, comedy and characters seem to be Peele's strong point. It's very well shot, it has a nice atmosphere, I really like the way Peele uses music.
The film is pretty creepy but when the horror starts the film dips in quality a bit.
Anyway, I really love the cast, especially both sets of parents, all are really funny and have great chemistry.
The kids are great actors too which is great, it's nice that Peele cares enough find good child actors.
The film does have its flaws...
While watching the film at the beginning I just thought the twist was supposed to be assumed, but then later in the film there's some red herrings and then a very dramatic reveal of it, I just found that very weird, if you've ever seen a film ever, you know that if they cut away from something then something happened, ex. if they cut away before you see someone get murdered in a horror film, they're almost definitely alive. So by the end I realized it was supposed to be a plot twist... So that's sorta dumb
Also, there's an out of place and boring exposition scene at the end of the film that semi explains stuff, but like if you're not going to explain everything don't do an obnoxious exposition scene. Because then I don't feel as if it's up to interpretation, I just feel as if you're deliberately holding information while giving other information very bluntly.
Anyway, I like the ending, but they use the song "Les Fleurs" which PTA used in Inherent Vice like 5 years ago, so it's all I could think of during the ending, it usually annoys me when films use songs other films used but since this film is very new it annoyed me ever so slightly more.
I'm definitely looking forward to Peele's next film, in 40 years he'll be thought of as one of the great American directors with a large filmography full of great films.