2/3 of a great film

Rating: 5/10 (23 March 2019)

Maybe unfairly, but not uncommonly, I watched this film comparing it to "Get Out".
It doesn't compare well.
Frustratingly though, many aspects are better.It has great performances. It has a wider scope.
Nothing that's on the screen is bad - it's just what's on the screen doesn't fit together into anything satisfyingly coherent.
It seemingly goes out of it's way to snub out a few possible metaphorical readings, but this leaves the film cold in the middle. I find myself trying to wedge some justification in, to give it some meaning, and feel the director is fighting back.
There's a twist at the end, you will see coming - it's not unwelcome and provides a modicum of depth - but then I found myself annoyed that the film bothered to include this, and ignore huge swathes of other "unexplained stuff that just happened"