Great potential gone astray

Rating: Null/10 (31 December 2019)

Spoilers alert
The premise is original and intriguing but my views are as follows.
The film would have been easier to digest of were a book because the visuals of the scale start to beg questions immediately. I think it would have been better set in a small, sleepy town to account for some of this. Think a Stephen King type town. Then it could be accounted for how they ate, where they got their hair cut, had diets that made them of similar size of their top dwelling counterparts, ad nauseam. And why, when the project was scrapped they were not "appropriately dealt with." If it were an eccentric billionaire that was trying to develop an organ growing clone program on a small scale and stumbled upon the mental connection between the human and clone, a lot of these questions go away.
A second criticism is the inconsistencies of the characters. Sometimes smart and clever, sometimes seemingly learning impaired (car keys, stopping to catch their breath at the most inopportune times, again and again, etc). We were told that the main character had a special connection with her counterpart, the dancing and such, but when the friends twins were killed by theirs, the tunnel dwellers suddenly had exquisite gymnastic skills. I know many theories can try to explain this, but they all just lead to more questions. That was added frustration that compounded the question raised by the scale.
I hope this was a product of studio/outside influence on Peele, and not a sign his going to follow the career path of M. Knight.
I will definitely be watching Peele's next film. I hope that he pays attention to fair criticisms of Us.