Weak

Rating: 7/10 (1 June 2019)

The new movie, by the still amateur Jordan Peele, has a lot of hype, but he can not live up to expectations. Between slaps and kisses, the film finds itself in a wave of clichÃ©s, where it gets lost in logic. Despite an excellent social critique, he prefers to go not too deep, leaving holes in the story.
Jordan Peele, known for his work on Get Out, returns to the big screen with a work without salt, where expectations surpass its quality. Although still amateur in the cinema, Peele manages to innovate in its direction. It was to realize that the mistakes made previously served as the basis of what not to do in certain scenes. With beautiful images and enormous intelligence, he surprised me, he overcame himself in a grotesque way.
When one thing improves, another thing gets worse. I agree that the story has some very creative things, but they do not come together. From what I noticed, he put a lot of things into the recipe, but the result was unrelated. With too much information, he got lost in the logic of the events. Besides, the movie itself did not frighten me. I laughed more than I felt afraid in a HORROR movie. You can tell there's something wrong, right?
A similarity between the director's two films is the soundtrack. It sets the tone of the entire storyline, with engaging songs and scary noises, that shivers the hairs of anyone.
The performances bothered me a lot. The actors, taking away Lupita, could not transmit any fear. They could not get even close to reasonable, disrupting the continuity of the film. Uninspired, that's what I felt in the characters, cliches of other films.
In the end, Us brings a worse experience, compared to Get Out, but valid in some aspects. He's quite different from the other horror films out there, so if you like the genre, it's worth watching.