Overrated yet still promising for the future of Jordan Peele Directed Horror films.

Rating: 4/10 (15 April 2019)

I finally managed to watch Us last night, and I have to say I was a little disappointed as it was average at best.
It had a good start and good performances by all involved especially Lupita Nyongo and the young girl who plays her daughter. The story begins in a very intriguing manner that really draws you in and makes you invest in the family, but by the halfway mark, the whole thing just starts falling apart under it's own weight.
Instead of being scary it becomes funny and predictable, and by the end it all makes so little sense that you're left scratching your head as to why they did what they did instead of going for a full on supernatural horror. The film wasn't nearly as fleshed out or imaginative as Get Out and it asks the audience to check their logic at the door.
There are some really interesting easter-eggs and references throughout as well as some really intelligent nuances to the music, character and history, but it's not enough to engage or make the last 3rd anything other than contrived. It really felt like they just ran with a spark of an idea, a "what if" situation, and never truly gave it the time to really grow.
I wanted to like this movie... It just couldn't deliver, as it felt more like Style over substance.