Tip of the Iceberg

Rating: 8/10 (23 March 2019)

I saw "Us", starring Lupita Nyongo-Black Panther, Star Wars:Episode 7_The Force Awakens; Winston Duke-Black Panther, Person of Interest_tv; Shahadi Wright Joseph-making her theatrical movie debut and Evan Alex-Mani_tv, Sesame Street_tv.
This is Jordan Peele's next movie to direct, after his successful 'Get Out'. He is also the writer and producer. I'll try not to give too much away-it's better that you don't know too much before seeing it-but what you have probably seen in the trailers is just the tip of the iceberg. Lupita and Winston are a married couple with two children, Shahadi and Evan. The story takes place in the present and in flashbacks to 1986. The family decides to take a summer vacation at a beach house in Santa Cruz, California. Problems arise when doppelgangers show up. During the flashbacks, you learn that Lupita had a traumatic experience that comes back to haunt her in the present-hint, hint, it involves the doppelgangers, who are trying to kill them. Each of the four main actors also play their own doppelgangers, only more psychotically enhanced-they are really hard to kill, too. The details of where they came from, what they want, why they are doing what they are doing, etc. are all explained briefly, but not in enough details for my tastes-I wish they would have gone into more background. The way the doppelgangers move, talk and act are all really creepy.
It's rated "R" for violence, terror and language and has a running time of 1 hour & 56 minutes.
I enjoyed it and would buy it on Blu-ray.