Disappointing after the brilliant "Get Out"!

Rating: 4/10 (22 June 2019)

Jordan Peele was on my list of directors to watch after the brilliantly unsettling "Get Out". I looked forward to "Us" as I like a horror movie and was expecting something a bit special. I was very disappointed with this daft and unscary body snatchers movie. The premise is just too silly for words. We each have a doppelganger tied to us mentally and physically by some unexplained scientific means. The clones are kept in underground bunkers and fed a diet of rabbits, until they rebel and start wanting to live above ground. Obviously this is a recipe for disaster. Cue clones in red boiler suits terrorising their above ground counterparts. They have a thing for long pairs of scissors. For a movie that purports to be horror, there is little tension, few scares and not a lot of horror. One of the clones speaks like someone with really bad laryngitis and another runs about on all fours and barks! The protagonists are just not monstrous enough to be scary and the plot is nonsensical, sci-fi twaddle. The cast are pretty bland too. No-one seems that bothered and the acting has a "going through the motions" feel. The kids convince more than the adults and actors of the calibre of Elizabeth Moss, are just plain wasted. Even the twist ending was dumb and obvious. Desperately mediocre.