I want to love this movie so badly!

Rating: 6/10 (23 March 2019)

When I saw just the trailer to the film, it stayed in an ambiguously supernatural territory, and the raised questions sparked my intrigue, my imagination and psychological tension. What are these entities are and where they come from? Are they from a shadow dimension that parallels our own? Are they mirroring demonic entities? Are they manifestations of the dark parts of our own identities that somehow severed from the characters' souls? I got really excited at all the possibilities.
...but I was a little disappointed when it went into sci-fi territory. Peele doesn't outright say they were clones, but it was alluded. I hate to label Us as science fiction, but when it enters that territory, it raises a list of logistical questions that can't go unanswered... And I love a film shrouded in ambiguity, but science fiction requires answers, at least before the credits roll... Makes me WISH the film was the (perhaps Lovecraftian) quantum fiction that was in my mind when I saw the trailer.
Seeing Lupita Nyong'o play these two roles was a joy, and the film still exuded Jordan Peele's creative vision and sense of fun. I still can't wait to see what he comes out with next.