A horror movie spanning from home invasion to wider social critique

Rating: 8/10 (22 August 2019)

To start with, Jordan Peele is truly a great director who's love for the medium cannot be mistaken. "Us", however, is a film quite hard to grasp in my opinion. Beginning as something of a supernatural home invasion horror film, "Us" turns into more of a slasher before rapidly turning into a large scale conspiracy horror film with political undertones fused with - I presume - social critique, aiming for the U.S. class system. Does it work out? Not quite as much as one might hope for. At the end of the film, you wonder why Peele chose to cover up the film's theme with the creepy home invasion and wether or not the film succeeds in telling the overlaying story of classism and (if that's what he wanted) xenophobia. I don't really know. Perhaps, the entire film is just a showcase of Peele's love for the medium, which, if the case, he truly succeeded by delivering an entertaining, well-played horror film.