Us - Review Thread

Third act def falters under expository dialogue, which I'm not sure was peele's idea, seemed like an added in post sorta scene with the face edited into the classroom as she was stalking the red suited version. But it didn't ruin the experience for me.

As you do start to think deeper it becomes rather silly but that's most horror movies, like comedies their third acts normally fall into tropes or predictability to a certain extent, but the previous hour and a half is awesome.

Give it a hearty 'dug it' from me.

8.5/10

Wow, that is absolutely not what I was expecting you to say.

Care to elaborate more or did you just drop the mic and walk away?

Hey, leave Ready Player One outta this!

#NotAllHeroesWearCapes

You’ll be hearing from me? Man that’s classic.

That’s why I think it would have been more effective not explaining anything rather than vaguely touching on a few things here and there. The first two acts are still really effective, I just didn’t buy everything it tried to sell us at the end.

I do wonder how they mimic some of our actions. Like what would doubles of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin do to mimic the moon landing. If someone were in the Navy, what would the double do if he were stationed extensively at sea...

Yeah, the lore of the "shadows" is dumb as fuck. But I thought some of stuff in Get Out was rather silly on a surface level as well. Ultimately it doesn't bother me as much since the origin of the doubles is fairly irrelevant as opposed to the fact that they exist in the first place in the movie. But one's reaction to what they are may definitely be the deciding factor as to whether or not the movie is any good.

Oh, the rabbit hole is pretty deep if you want to tear the system apart.  Do they stop being tethered long enough to raise and eat their rabbits?  If you fly from the West Coast to the East Coast does your tether go with you?  Do immigrants have tethers? How do they end up fucking the right people at the right time to pass on genetic material identical to their kids above?  Are they constantly walking into walls?

Well, now I'm embarrassed that it took me longer.

Like PhantomKnight, it was jarring that such a prominent part of the trailer was cut from the intro. Then in the bedroom scene, where she’s recounting the story, they cut it again. At that point it was obvious there was a twist or that Jordan Peele had pulled a Russo Bros.

I completely agree.  Movies do need "rules", "limits" because as the audience we understand where we're operating in.  The Matrix has rules, which is why when Neo begins to break these rules it's so exciting.  Us is so inconsistent that it's clear Peele is just playing for the scene and not the overall movie.  I mentioned in my review: Why is the son able to control his "other" and yet that never comes into play the rest of the film?  Why are they suddenly able to break away from the links?  Peele doesn't need to explain everything, but he has to explain something, or else it just looks like rules only apply in certain scenes and not others, which is inexcusable for a movie like this.

It feels like a draft that needed someone else to look at and ask these questions, both about the rules and Peele's themes which are just as scattershot and undercooked.  He went unchecked here and the result is a mixed bag that's only going to get weaker on repeat viewings.

Also they missed an opportunity to kill the dad early on in my opinion.  Once it's clear no one in the family is going to die, the suspense loses steam real, real fast.  If they had offed him early on, it would've added a level of fear to the proceedings knowing that the physically strongest of the group is gone and now they're also outnumbered.  Us is a film that plays itself safe within the confines of the genre.